[Greens-Media] Tas Greens_Lennon's Pulp Mill Admission Means Bartlett Must Withdraw Support_N McKim MP

[greens at parliament.tas.gov.au]

BARTLETT SHOULD WITHDRAW SUPPORT FOR PULP MILL AFTER LENNON SITE
ADMISSION
 
And Terminate Wood Supply Agreement

Nick McKim MP
Greens Opposition Leader

Monday, 10 November 2008
Contact: State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens, (03) 6233
8300

www.tas.greens.org.au


The Tasmanian Greens today said that former Premier Paul Lennon's
admission that the government should have done more work on the pulp
mill site prior to Gunns ltd choosing the Tamar Valley is an effective
admission that the proposed pulp mill is in the wrong place, and called
on current Premier David Bartlett to cancel the state Parliamentary
permits.

Greens Leader Nick McKim MP also demanded that Premier David Bartlett
instruct Forestry Tasmania to terminate its pulp mill wood supply
agreement pending a thorough assessment of the carbon value of the
relevant forests, which should be completed prior to any further
allocation of that timber.

"There is no chance that either the agreed construction date of 30
November or the agreed operations commencement date of 31 December 2010
will be met, and on that basis Mr Bartlett should hold to his 'line in
the sand' and instruct Forestry Tasmania to terminate the wood supply
agreement." 

"The ongoing delays in commencing construction have rendered the
agreement obsolete, and it is Mr Bartlett's responsibility to ensure
that Tasmania's forests are protected for their carbon value rather than
trashed to feed Gunns' polluting pulp mill." 

"Any failure to terminate the wood supply agreement will expose Mr
Bartlett as just another in the long line of chainsaw driven Labor
Premiers."

Mr McKim said that Mr Lennon's admission on the issue of siting should
be enough to convince Mr Bartlett that his support for the mill in its
current location was flawed.

"Mr Bartlett should support the cancellation of the Parliamentary fast
track approval and the associated permits so that the people of the
Tamar Valley can get on with their lives and the carbon embedded in
Tasmania's forests can help in the fight against dangerous climate
change."





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