Resources Minister, Paul Harriss’s ridiculous claim that the Greens supported logging in the World Heritage Area does not stand up to scrutiny.
Minister Paul Harriss is unable to provide a future operating model for Forestry Tasmania, or a business case for its so-called return to financial viability.
Premier Will Hodgman has claimed today in Budget Estimates that logging and mining can be conducted in wilderness areas without compromising wilderness values.
Treasurer Peter Gutwein has increased Forestry Tasmania’s debt capacity by $10 million to $41m.
FSC's auditors, SCS Global, has identified non-conformities in Forestry Tasmania's FSC application.
The Minister is now taking up Paul Lennon's dream of burning native forest woodchips in industrial scale forest furnaces to generate electricity.
Forests Minister Paul Harriss has refused to rule out ongoing public subsidies for burning native forest woodchips and pulp logs to generate electricity.
The Hodgman government must rule out lobbying for native forest logging waste and biomass to be included in the Renewable Energy Target.
The Treasurer needs to answer a very simple question here: Who is running this State? The government or Forestry Tasmania?
Minister Harriss must undertake a rigorous cost-benefit analysis of the potential revenue and employment opportunities of the state’s plantation estate.
