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Exports of woodchips from Eden |
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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.
Total exports from Eden since the establishment of the
chipmill are approx 35 million green tonnes. |
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After tax profits for South East Fibre Exports Pty Ltd
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Royalty payments
are payments made to the State Government for logs. In NSW, typical royalties
for pulplogs are:
The average pulplog royalty for both regions
in 2004 was $14.26. For 2005 it was $12.85 per tonne. |
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Political donations:
South East Fibre Exports apparently does not make donations to any
political party. However, the Forest Products Association has made
periodic payments.
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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. |
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Area logged.
In 2006, a total of 9,045 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/ |
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