[Greens-Media] Tas Greens_Tasmania Together Progress Report_N McKim MP

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TASMANIA TOGETHER PEPORT REVEALS TARGET TO END CLEARFELLING OLD GROWTH
FORESTS BY 2010 IS UNLIKELY TO BE MET

Bartlett Exposed as Typical Labor Forest Destroying Premier

Nick McKim MP
Greens Leader

Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Contact: State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens, (03) 6233
8300

www.tas.greens.org.au


The Tasmanian Greens today said that the Tasmania Together 2008 Progress
Report reveals that the government is not making progress towards the
target of ending the clearfelling of Tasmania's old growth forests by
2010.

Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that even using Forestry Tasmania's
data, which he said is deliberately skewed to favour industry and
government, the opinion of the Tasmania Together Progress Board is that
the Bartlett government is unlikely to meet the target of ending the
clearfelling of Tasmania's old growth forests by 2010.

"If Premier David Bartlett refuses to take action to address this
situation he will be exposed as a typical Labor forest destroying
Premier in the same vein as Paul Lennon and Jim Bacon."

"This Report throws down the gauntlet to the self-proclaimed 'data
driven' Premier, and the question for Mr Bartlett is whether he is
actually prepared to take action to reign in the forest industry or
whether it will remain business as it always has been under Labor."

"What Tasmania needs is a Premier who values our forests, and sees them
as complex ecosystems and carbon stores rather than something to plunder
for woodchips. The problem is that Mr Bartlett does not seem be that
kind of Premier."

"The best way to meet this Tasmania Together target and fight climate
change would be for Mr Bartlett to commit to protecting some of our
globally unique old growth forests," Mr McKim said.

"Remember, the initial Tasmania Together target of ending clearfelling
in high conservation value forests by 2003 was not met, and now we have
to face up to the fact the Labor is simply not interested in protecting
forests, but on plundering them."



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