WOODCHIPPING AND THE
RECESSION
Every day the woodchipping industry is shut down saves up to
3,000 trees and the wildlife that those trees support.
The global downturn is hitting the paper/woodchip industry very
hard. At Easter 2009, the chipmill announced it would close for
almost 3 weeks, longer than the national shutdown of 10 days.
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NIPPON PAPER
PURCHASE OF AUSTRALIAN PAPER MILLS On February 16
2009 the owner of the Eden chipmill, Nippon Paper Group Inc said
it would pay $A600 million for Australian Paper (PaperlinX) and
up to A$100 million more based on performance over three years
to June 2012.
PaperlinX has paper mills in Maryvale (Victoria) and Shoalhaven
(NSW). This could have far reaching implications for the SE
Australian woodchipping industry.
The
Victorian bushfires
are an
immense tragedy for people, wildlife, domestic animals and the bush.
They have also been used to undermine the truth. Logging activists
and conservative politicians have blamed "greenies" for the
fires. Consider these facts
BERMAGUI
LOGGING THREATENS LAST KOALAS ON THE FAR SOUTH COAST
ForestsNSW is hell bent on logging critical koala habitat at the
northern entrance to Bermagui. Compartments 2004 and 2005 are
right on the river and right on the northern end of the
"Wilderness Coast."
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The
"F" WORD
"F" for forest, that is. When you buy one of these special
organic cotton knit tops (all natural colour), profits go to
South East Region Conservation Alliance Inc. Natural Native
Forest Campaign. Design by Prue Acton & Jen Mallinson.
Introductory price: $49
Postage extra $13 (Allow 5% shrinkage).
Buy on line
FORESTS
IN THE FURNACE
On 26 August 2008 the Eden chipmill announced plans to build a
$20 native forest wood fired power station. More
WALK
AGAINST WOODCHIPS
Walk Against Woodchips will be launched from Canberra on Monday,
1st September. Keri James and her six year old
daughter Clover started the first leg of a long walk from
Canberra to Hobart, to educate and
inform communities across Australia of the very real threat our
native forests face from the giant woodchip industry.
Arriving Bega 19 September 2008.More
HIGHER
PROFITS FOR CHIPMILL The 2007 Annual Report for South East Fibre Exports records a huge
leap in profits. Net profit was $M9.063, approx 33% higher than the
previous year.
PETER GARRETT IN
BED WITH WOODCHIPPERS World's best practice sellout, Peter Garrett comes face to face with a
live art installation depicting himself in bed with a logger on an
electioneering visit to Bega on 2 August 2007. Unfair? Well, on the
same night, he had dinner with Eden woodchip mill General Manager,
Peter Mitchell and Corporate Affairs Manager, Vince Phillips.
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF WOODCHIPPING INDUSTRY REVEALS HUGE SUBSIDIES A new financial analysis of the woodchipping industry exposes huge
NSW taxpayer subsidies. Terry Digwood's new submission to the NSW
Treasury on pulpwood royalties reveals figures that the official
documents don't want you to know.
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CHIPMILL BLOCKADE APRIL 2007
Focus on Global Warming We blockaded the chipmill at Eden for over 11 hours to
highlight the woodchipping industry as a generator of
greenhouse gasses. During the blockade, Mr Peter Rutherford, Forestry Manager of SEFE
unsuccessfully attempted to invoke a 2005 Supreme Court injunction
against a group of 8 Wandella forest activists which sought to
prevent them from blockading the logging company, Bruce Mathie and
Sons. Mr Rutherford arrived at the blockade site with a Mathie log
truck under police escort, and driven by Mr Quentin Mathie. The
truck and driver remained present while Mr Rutherford read out the
injunction. With climate change upon us, we need these forests more than ever.
It is no longer just a regional or even a national issue. It is a
world wide concern.
Mr Peter Rutherford, Forestry Manager of the Eden
chipmill reads out a Supreme Court injunction against a group of
Wandella activists in an attempt to lift the blockade
WELFARE FOR WOODCHIPPERS
Conservationists query welfare for woodchippers at opening of Bega
Centrelink Office by woodchipping support, Gary Nairn MP.
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YELLOW BELLIED
GLIDER KILLED IN LOGGING This is a dead Yellow Bellied Glider found smashed to death under
branches of tree logged by Forests NSW in early July in Bago State
Forest. These beautiful, harmless creatures are actually listed as
Endangered under the NSW Threatened Species Act and Forests NSW are
supposed to take measures to protect these animals. We should
remember, though, that early ecological research on the impacts of
woodchipping involved asking the loggers to count the dead bodies of
animals like these at the end of the day's work.
Photo: High Country Conservation
Alliance Inc (HCCA)
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