[Greens-Media] SENATOR KERRY NETTLE VISITS FAR SOUTH COAST LOGGING PROTEST

[Bolwell, Kristian (Sen K. Nettle)]

SENATOR KERRY NETTLE VISITS FAR SOUTH COAST LOGGING PROTEST 

28.06.07 

Greens Senator Kerry Nettle visited the far south coast this week to
inspect the controversial logging at Gulaga Mountain, near Narooma.

Senator Nettle, accompanied by Greens candidate for Eden-Monaro, Keith
Hughes said she was keen to support efforts of the local community to
save the forest.

"I am full of admiration for the efforts of the local community and
especially the brave blockaders who have kept this struggle going over
two cold wet winter months," Senator Nettle said.

"Our native forests are the planet's most valuable carbon sinks and to
be subsidising their destruction at this time is just crazy," she said.

"Even more so when we know how important this area is to the local
Aboriginal community." 

Senator Nettle said she supported the eviction notice issued by
Traditional owners to Forests NSW.

"With more available evidence about the greenhouse impacts of intensive
logging the case to end native forest woodchipping becomes stronger.

"When I asked the government last month in the Senate about the impact
of native forest woodchipping in the south east on climate change, it
was very clear that the Government had done no research into the
greenhouse impacts of woodchipping and had no interest in finding out,"
she said.

Greens candidate for Eden-Monaro, Keith Hughes says that while
communities across the south east are committing to responsible
reductions in their greenhouse emissions, families alone should not be
expected to carry the full burden.

The emissions from the woodchipping industry dwarf those of families.
"In less than a week, the woodchipping industry generates as much CO2 as
every car in the Eden-Monaro electorate over one year," he said.

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