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Near record profits reported by Eden chipmill

Forests and Global Warming What is woodchipping? Chipstop campaign in SE NSW Japan and International Campaign Forests 2000 Poetry Prize Activists Corner What's New Home FACTS AND FIGURES Have your Say Japanese Version		HIGHER PROFITS FOR CHIPMILL CUT EMISSIONS, NOT FORESTS PETER GARRETT IN BED WITH WOODCHIPPERS FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF WOODCHIPPING INDUSTRY REVEALS HUGE SUBSIDIES GULAGA LOGGING CHIPMILL BLOCKADE APRIL 2007 LEAVE A COMMENT IN OUR NEW GUEST BOOK CHIPMILL VIGIL AND TRUCK COUNTS WELFARE FOR WOODCHIPPERS GRAFFITI APRIL FOOLS CHIPSTOP POSTER YELLOW BELLIED GLIDER KILLED IN LOGGING CHIPMILL BLOCKADE 5 JULY 2006 WELCOME TO PETER MITCHELL EDEN CHIPMILL MASS RALLY 2 JULY CHIPMILL CONVEYOR BELT LOCK-ON WOODCHIPPERS BREAK TRUCK RECORD NIPPON PAPER LETTER *CHIPSTOPPER* WOODCHIPPING SUX STICKERS CHIP SHIP ACTION PICS
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.		Read more SEFE 2007 Report to ASIC SEFE Corporate Profile
		CUT EMISSIONS, NOT FORESTS SERCA calls for visionary new policies to make forests part of the solution to global warming and improving water supplies, not part of the problem.Click
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.		Click to expand photo
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. Click		GULAGA LOGGING Gulaga Mountain needs your help now. It is a special place with important meaning for the Aboriginal community. Its beautiful spotted gum forests are home to numerous threatened species. Logging of Compartment 3046 of Bodalla Forest (Gulaga Mountain) started on 14 May. How to help the campaign
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

CHIPMILL VIGIL AND TRUCK COUNTS The latest truck count results, December 2006. Previous counts	Unsplit logs		Split logs

	WELFARE FOR WOODCHIPPERS Conservationists query welfare for woodchippers at opening of Bega Centrelink Office by woodchipping support, Gary Nairn MP. More
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CHIPSTOP POSTER Download		APRIL FOOLS OFFENSIVE A Federal Minister is accused of abusing his position to sool Federal Police onto a constituent over an April Fools Day prank
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)
CHIPMILL BLOCKADE 5 JULY 2006 Treesitter at Edrom Road blockade on July 5. Her efforts helped to stop traffic into the chipmill for 6 hours. She was arrested for her efforts.		WELCOME TO PETER MITCHELL, new General Manager of South East Fibre Exports. Mr Mitchell is well known to conservationists as a "hands-on" manager. He has turned up with his chainsaw on a number of occasions at blockades and other actions at the chipmill and in the forest. On one occasion he distinguished himself by cutting the legs off a trip-pod with his chainsaw while it was still upright. We are pleased to see that SEFE has recruited the new boss from within its own ranks and that it has chosen somebody who will at least be entertaining. Does anyone have a photo of Peter Mitchell?
EDEN CHIPMILL MASS RALLY 2 JULY The chipmill rally on 2 July was a great success, with 600 - 700 people braving cold winter weather, many of them travelling great distances to tell governments and corporations that they will not put up with native forest woodchipping. Check here for more details. See some good photos from the rally.		WOODCHIPPING PHOTO GALLERY Check it out now. Add your photo.
CHIPMILL CONVEYOR BELT LOCK-ON For more than a full work shift on 10 June 2005 all woodchipping stopped at the Eden mill when 10 people, with support from an outside crew entered the mill and attached to the conveyor belt which moves chips from the chipper to the stockpile. The only work done was some minor maintenance, although the canteen was very busy selling cups of coffee, especially to the police. This is the first time that conservationists have succeeded in entering the mill since the new security fence has been in place. In January 2006 conservationists again entered the mill and stopped work by locking on to truck unloaders. Pic opposite shows conservationists locked on to the chipmill conveyor belt
Greens Councillor Keith Hughes and friend monitor log trucks a few days before Xmas		WOODCHIPPERS BREAK TRUCK RECORD Our 2004 chipmill vigil reported record high truck numbers, on average 163 per day. The previous average was 130. Previous highest recorded tally for a single day during a woodchip vigil was 146. A vigil in December 2005 again recorded 160 trucks. These survey results are devastating and our worst ever result. • a higher proportion (79%) of log loads contained old growth trees • a smaller proportion (less than 10 %) were offcuts from sawmills. Both of these findings are in direct conflict with industry and Government claims. • high numbers of split logs on trucks. Company spokesmen often state that the mill no longer needs to split logs. They cite this as “evidence” that they no longer use large old trees. This is simply not true. Evidence gathered during the survey shows that the chipmill still uses a high proportion of enormous logs, but they are now split before trucking, not at the mill. This is a con intended to fool the public and save the chipmill money. Back to top
NIPPON PAPER LETTER Write to Nippon Paper, owner of the Eden chipmill and major buyer of Tasmanian woodchips. Ask them not to recognise the disreputable Australian Forestry Standard as an acceptable form of certification under their environmental policy. Print out this letter and send to the address on the letter. * English language version * Japanese language version. Let us know when you have posted your letter so that we can keep a tally of the number of letters sent. Back to top		CHIPSTOPPER Spring 2004 Winter 2004 Summer 2005 Winter 2005 Spring 2005 Summer 2006 Autumn 2006 Spring 2006 Autumn 2007 Winter 2007 Back to top
WOODCHIPPING SUX STICKERS The old classic is back. 21.5cm x 7cm on paper with waterproof glaze. There must be a million and one uses for a handy item like this. $2.00 each $35 for 20 $75 for 50 price includes postage Ask us about the special price for activists. chipstop@forests.org.au Or send your order with cheque or MO to CHIPSTOP at: PO Box 797, Bega NSW 2550, Australia Back to top		1
Woodchip mill security guard confronts one of 30 conservationists heading for the Keisho Maru		CHIP SHIP ACTION PICS
Woodchip mill worker hoses protesters with cold water just as winter arrives in Eden		Conservationists about to lock themselves to woodchip loader
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