[Greens-Media] Tas Greens_Gunns Clearing Public Reserve for Pulp Mill_K Booth MP

[greens at parliament.tas.gov.au]

GUNNS SET TO CLEAR TREVALLYN RESERVE IN START-WORK CHARADE

Pulp Mill Still Lacks Finance, Permission to Operate, Full Pipeline
Access, and a Social Licence

Kim Booth MP
Greens Pulp Mill spokesperson

Friday, 21 August 2009
Contact: State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens, (03) 6233
8300

www.tas.greens.org.au


The Tasmanian Greens today described Gunns Ltd's decision to begin
clearing an area of public reserve inside the Trevallyn Nature
Recreation Area as an obscene charade, given that Gunns have no finance
for their pulp mill project, no access for their pipeline, no federal
permission to dump effluent in Bass Strait, and no social licence to
build their toxic and divisive pulp mill.

Greens Pulp Mill spokesperson Kim Booth MP said the Labor and Liberal
parties, who voted to excise part of the Trevallyn Nature Recreation
Area in 2007 on Gunns' behalf, should hang their heads in shame as the
chainsaws move onto land that should still be a public reserve.

"This beautiful public reserve is set to be destroyed by Gunns for a
pipeline to a pulp mill project that is in complete limbo with no
financial backing, huge community opposition, and no Federal permission
to use the pristine waters of Bass Strait as a dump for 64,000 tonnes of
toxic effluent every day of the year," said Mr Booth.

"This is nothing more than a charade to convince the market that Gunns
are actually starting work on their pulp mill proposal."

"What a fitting first step for the pulp mill - bulldozing a public
reserve for a pipeline that has no access, to a pulp mill that has no
finance and no permission to operate."

"The decision by Labor and Liberal to excise a public reserve on behalf
of Gunns Ltd should be condemned by all."

"The Greens will continue to support the community in their opposition
to this perfidious proposal, and to expose the cowardice of the Labor
and Liberal parties who have trampled over the rights of ordinary
Tasmanians in their rush to give Gunns Ltd everything it wants," said Mr
Booth.




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