Salmon Industry – Presence of JBS and Cooke
Can you confirm that last Wednesday, you hosted an exclusive Liberal Party fundraising dinner, for which tickets were $4400 per head?
Can you confirm that last Wednesday, you hosted an exclusive Liberal Party fundraising dinner, for which tickets were $4400 per head?
Reports animal feed additive Ethoxyquin - banned in Europe because of dangers for human health & aquatic life - has been found in Tasmanian salmon are alarming.
Toxicology experts have concluded those levels combined exceed even Australia's inadequate ethoxyquin maximum limit.
In 2017, Tassal CEO, Mark Ryan, trumpeted his companies claim to be setting the salmon industry on a sustainable trajectory by getting out of inshore waters.
Tasmania's home-grown salmon industry has been gobbled up by international corporations with long records of environmental and workplace crimes.
The Greens stand with the residents of the Tasman Peninsula defending their waterways.
I thank the Bob Brown Foundation and the community around Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula for their peaceful protest this morning.
No Tasmanian would be comforted by the Environment Minister’s attempted assurances in Parliament today.
After years of unchecked expansion and worsening environmental and social impacts, Tasmania's fish farming industry is about to enter its darkest phase.
Ms Palmer is the latest in a line of Labor and Liberal salmon industry supplicants.