As you read this, tonnes of sand and silt are being sucked from the floor of Port Phillip Bay. But it’s no the endgame in the battle between the developers and environmental guardians, writes Lionel Elmore.
Federal environment minister
Channel Deepening: Reasons to fear it
Here, Lionel Elmore offers a snapshot of the possible environmental damage that underpins the growing opposition to the project.
Demonising your enemy: PoMC takes on Blue Wedges
The battle for Port Phillip Bay is getting nasty, with some of the Port of Melbourne Corporation’s tactics now available for all to see, writes Lionel Elmore.
Pulp politics: over to you Gunns
The voices in the pulp mill debate are many. Here’s what they are saying following the Minister announcement.
Praise the woodchips and pass the backpackers
Australia’s largest promoter of forestry-based Managed Investment Schemes—Great Southern Plantations—has been using unskilled foreign backpackers to carry out sensitive land clearing operations, writes Henri Ivrey.
Political bite-sized meaty chunks
The Coalition agrees the IR laws are dirty … The pulp mill and pre-packaged protest … They mightn’t know who she is, but she knows who they are …
Gunns may face November start date after all
The delays that Gunns so vigorously objected to back in March may have been unavoidable after all, writes Thomas Hunter.
