Facts and Figures

	Exports of woodchips from Eden SEFE Company Profile After tax profits for South East Fibre Exports Log truck numbers Royalty payments Political donations The koala in the Eden Region Threatened species Area logged Links
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	Exports of woodchips in Green Tonnes SEFE last year exported over 1 million green tonnes of woodchips from Eden. Most of this goes to the parent company in Japan. A long term supply contract with the New South Wales Government guarantees 329,400 tonnes a year from the Eden Region and 80,000 from the Southern Region. From Victoria, a long term contract exists with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to supply 200,000 tonnes a year until 2012. However, since the Regional Forest Agreements, no export license is now required, and Victorian forests are supplying an increasing proportion of the chipmill's inputs.   1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 700,123 666,830 704,264 712,758 760,993 711,378 794,433 838,600 7,968,447 1 million Total exports from Eden since the establishment of the chipmill are approx 35 million green tonnes. [back to top]
SEFE Company Profile After tax profits for South East Fibre Exports Pty Ltd $A 1996 $A 1997 $A 1998 $A 1999 $A 2000 $A 2001 $A 2002 $A 2003 $A 2004 $A 2005 10,373,613 8,726,133 11,775,732 5,983,063 7,763,403 6,446,910 6,264,013 7,265,748 6,060,015 7,968,447 On a typical day - 160 trucks enter the chipmilll with loads of either woodchips or logs. This is based on a regular truck monitoring surveys undertaken by Chipstop, the most recent in March 2009.  This equates to an en estimated 14.5 million truck kilometres every year.
Royalty payments are payments made to the State Government for logs. In NSW, typical royalties for pulplogs are: South Coast Region: $8.00 per tonne South East Region: $18.00 per tonne Over ninety per cent of timber felled in the Eden Region is either woodchipped or wasted. Just 2 percent ends up as sawn timber. The average pulplog royalty for both regions in 2004 was $14.26. For 2005 it was $12.85 per tonne. [back to top]
Political donations: The logging industry generally does not make donations to any political party; indeed, taxpayers are digging deep to subsidise it. However, the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) and Forest Products Association (FPA) have made small donations from time to time. Significantly, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Engineering Union (CFMEU), the loggers' union is among the biggest donors to the Labor Party. In 2004, it gave $670,000 to the ALP.
The koala in the Eden Region is on the brink of regional extinction. The Australian and NSW Governments do not recognise this, but the US Government does. In May 2000, the US Government declared the koala as threatened across its entire range under the US Endangered Species Act as threatened. The listing was based on nine years intensive research and scientific submissions to the US Government by the "Australians for Animals" group. In his submission to the US Government, Dr Frank Carrick, University of Queensland referred to the koala as "almost extinct" in the southern half of NSW. "Even these survivors continue to be threatened by intensive forestry operations such as clearfelling of the Southern NSW forests for woodchip exports," he said. [back to top]
Area logged. In 2008, a total of more than 14,500 hectares was logged in the south coast and Eden regions combined (source: ForestsNSW). Every logtruck represents half a hectare of forest logged (on the basis of figures in the Eden EIS (Vol C, Appendix 4-9), 59 826 ha =2726 984 tonnes.  On the same basis, each fully laden woodchip carrier, such as the Daishowa Maru, for example represents 1176.5 hectares of logged forest.	Threatened species. For details visit the National Parks and Wildlife Service website at: http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/ For full details of threatened species in the SE NSW woodchipping region click
For other useful information on forests, policy and campaigns, visit these websites: South East Region Conservation Alliance http://www.serca-online.org/ South East Forest Rescue http://www.serca-online.org/ Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) http://www.geco.org.au Environment East Gippsland http://www.eastgippsland.net.au/ Japan Tropical Forest Action Network (JATAN): http://www.jca.apc.org/jatan/woodchip-j/newinfo.html Bega Environment Network, for information on local campaigns http://www.enet.thebegavalley.com Ecological Internet, Inc.P.O. Box 433, Denmark, WI 54208, USA http://www.rainforestportal.org/ South East Fibre Exports http://www.south-east-fibre-exports.com [back to top]