Primary Industries – JBS Takeover
Minister, I want to ask you a couple of questions before I leave the committee about JBS and its planned takeover of Huon.
Minister, I want to ask you a couple of questions before I leave the committee about JBS and its planned takeover of Huon.
There is huge concern in coastal communities around Tasmania about your Government's plans to double the size of the Tasmanian fish farming industry.
Now we know that JBS wants to enter the Tasmanian fish farming sector - after dumping abattoir waste into Porky's Creek on King Island.
JBS is in the middle of taking over Australia's biggest pork producer, Riverlea.
The Benders are selling their shares in Huon Aquaculture after a chequered history of environmental damage, social disregard and animal welfare issues.
Richard Flanagan is a Tasmanian writer who has been described by the Washington Post as one of our greatest living novelists.
The gross treatment of seals, and apparently normalised culture of cruel and polluting practices, by the salmon industry have been laid bare in RTI documents.
Lutruwita/Tasmania deserves an independent Environment Protection Agency, with the resources and teeth to put this island’s precious environment first.
Lutruwita/Tasmania’s marine environment should be protected to retain its biodiversity, amenity and fish for the future.
Lutruwita/Tasmania has one of the most biologically diverse marine environments on the planet.