[Greens-Media] Tas Greens_Implement Tas Together Targets to End Forest Violence_N McKim MP

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BARTLETT ABANDONS BACON'S TASMANIA TOGETHER COMMITMENT

Refuses to End Logging in Contentious Areas

Nick McKim MP
Greens Opposition Leader

Thursday, 30 October 2008
Contact: State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens, (03) 6233
8300

www.tas.greens.org.au


The Tasmanian Greens today reacted with disappointment to Premier David
Bartlett's refusal to end the conflict in Tasmania's forests by
implementing the Labor instigated Tasmania Together recommendations that
called for an end to the clearfelling of Tasmania's high conservation
value forests including the Florentine Valley.

Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that the root cause of the violence in
Tasmania's forests is the government's deliberate prioritisation of
roading and logging activities in contentious areas of Tasmania's
magnificent high conservation value forests, and demanded that the
Premier take the heat out of the current conflict by ending logging in
those areas.

"The best way to end the conflict in Tasmania's forests is for the
government to cease logging in Tasmania's magnificent high conservation
value forests as recommended by the Tasmania Together process." 

"All we got from Mr Bartlett today was more of the same old rhetoric
that we became used to under Paul Lennon - it truly is a case of the
same rubbish in a different bin."

"These forests are globally significant carbon sinks, and should not
only be protected to take the heat out of the current conflict, but as a
crucial part of the fight against dangerous climate change." 

"Tasmania Together was the largest ever community consultation process
in Tasmania, loudly touted by Labor when it suits them, and the
government should be upholding former Premier Jim Bacon's commitment to
meet all the recommendations, not just the ones which are politically
expedient."

Mr McKim repeated that Mr Bartlett should accept his challenge to race
through the Florentine Valley on mountain bikes as flagged when the
Premier suggested that Mr McKim would not keep up with him during such
an event.




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