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GREENS' TO DEBATE PULP MILL ASSESSMENT REPEAL BILL 2008

Call On Lisa Singh to Maintain Consistency

Kim Booth MP
Greens Shadow Pulp Mill Spokesperson

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

www.tas.greens.org.au


The Tasmanian Greens will today bring on for debate their Pulp Mill
Assessment Repeal Bill 2008 which, if passed by the Parliament, will
revoke the Pulp Mill Permit established under the supposedly urgent Pulp
Mill Assessment Act 2007 (PMAA), and will also nullify any approvals
that may have been granted to date.

Greens Shadow Pulp Mill spokesperson Kim Booth MP said Premier
Bartlett's spin in parliament yesterday regarding the true purpose of
Section 11 of the PMAA was utterly ridiculous, and his colleagues,
especially Lisa Singh MP who abstained on the original vote for the
PMAA, should be embarrassed by their leader's misleading and uncaring
attitude towards this appalling Section.

"When the PMAA was introduced to parliament we were told in no uncertain
terms that urgency was of the utmost importance and that without urgency
the mill would die, but one year later construction has yet to commence
and the so-called urgency of August 2007 has been exposed as a cynical
manipulation of Parliament and the democratic process," said Mr Booth.

"Despite Premier Bartlett's disingenuous statements about Section 11,
his opinions are actually irrelevant as, if the Greens' Bill is passed
by parliament, the entire Lennon-driven Pulp Mill Assessment Act 2007
will be abolished including the odious and un-democratic Section 11."

"Last year Labor MP Lisa Singh chose to abstain from the Pulp Mill
Permit vote because of concerns about the pulp mill, but since that time
a number of new corruptions of due process have come to light yet Ms
Singh is now set to support the pulp mill process."

"I call on Lisa Singh to acknowledge that a vote for the repealing of
the Pulp Mill Assessment Act 2007 is a vote for the restoration of
democracy; it is a vote for the acknowledgement of the fundamental
rights of citizens to take action in common law against threats to their
health, homes and livelihoods," said Mr Booth.



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