An urgent ALP conference amendment proposed by construction union chief Dave Noonan to amend Labor’s national platform to outlaw special inspectors has been withdrawn at the 11th hour.
Forestry
One of the planet’s “most destructive companies” stresses about Aussie image
A recent event hosted by the Indonesian Ambassador revealed just how concerned the large Indonesian forestry companies are about recent public debates in Australia focussing on rainforest destruction in Indonesia, writes Reece Turner.
With Tassie logging deal done, what about our other forests?
Environmentalists are crying out for federal government intervention and regulation on environmental policies nationwide following the government’s payout deal struck with Tasmania’s lumber industry over the weekend.
Wood, entrepreneur and activist, won’t die wandering in forest
Rich list members Jan Cameron and Graeme Wood find themselves in the middle of the biggest story in Tasmania after the pair yesterday announced they had paid $10 million to buy the Triabunna native forest woodchip mill. Wood won’t die wondering.
Tiwi forestry: 30,000 hectares of “bankrupt monoculture”
The collapse of the forestry operations on the Tiwi islands represents not just a failure of an ambitious agricultural scheme but also a failure of good corporate governance, says Bob Gosford.
Tasmania’s burnoff greenhouse effect a mystery
Forestry Tasmania has admitted it does not know how much greenhouse gas is produced by its regeneration burns.
ETS sleeper: the government’s deforestation scam
The Rudd Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is riddled with rorts, writes Andrew Macintosh.
Fuel reduction burns not included in Australia’s C02 accounting
With huge fuel reduction burns planned for this fire season, Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore asks why the carbon they create is being ignored by foresters and others.
The Greens simply don’t want any forestry in Tasmania
The Greens are entitled to their view, but with no more than 20 percent of the vote in Tasmania and 9 percent nationally, they are not entitled to force it on the rest of the community, writes senior consultant at ITS Global Khalil Hegarty.
