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Protests against beginning Airport extension in Frankfurt/Germany

13.01.2009
+++The Owner of the Frankfurt Airport, Fraport, started today the extension of the airport to build a new runway+++woodcamp still exists+++more than a hundred people on a spontaneous demonstration in the wood

Frankfurt Airport is the biggest german airport and one of the biggest in europe. Some may remember the fierce controversies in the 1980s when a new runway was built (known as “Startbahn 18 West”, in those times more than 30.000 people gathered in the wood to fight against the extension an police brutality). Now the owner of the airport, the Fraport corporation, wants to build a new runway because they think they need more capacities to compete against the other european airports. The new runway will be in the north-side of the Frankfurt Airport, in the forest of Kelsterbach.

After Fraport began on Tuesday to fence the forest of Kelsterbach in, the day X chain alarm was triggered. The fence is the first building in the forest and serves to limit and eventually closure of the forest area, which the Fraport wants to be cleared until the end of February. The forest area is only transferred in the possession of Fraport since yesterday. Before the fence was setup, one hundred cops searched the area for protestors. The Hüttendorf (protestors camp) itself has not yet been affected by the fencing.

Already in the morning police showed up in the Hüttendorf and the camp was searched. The searches can be understood as part of a preparation for the eviction to be, because the police surveyed some areas and made the photographs. After the search officers in vehicles and on foot patroled through the adjacent forest.

At the same time different engineering firms began under the surveillance of hundred vops with measurements and the fencing in of the wood-area, which will be cleared first. The company signs of the vehicles were covered. The construction workers etahblished a 200-meter fence.

By 18 o’ clock more than a hundred people came togehter to a spontaneous demonstration in the wood. The demonstration went with flares to the point, whre the fence was built, there are rumours, which say the fence was partly dismantled. Constant surveillance of the fence was not evident and the police had disappeared from the forrest.

According to media reports, Fraport will wait with the clearing of the 300-hectare piece of wood long enough to wait until the Hessian administration court has decided an urgent appeal of the village of Kelsterbach the airport expansion. But Fraport will start to fell the trees soon, because due to german “ecology” law they are only allowed to fell trees until the beginning of march.

For an accurate assessment of events please visit in the coming days the Internet sites of www.waldbesetzung.blogsport.de or www.flughafen-bi.de

It the coming days there will be further actions. Tomorrow at 18 clock some initiatives (environmentalist, social groups, antifascists) will demonstrate together against the politics in Hesse (thats the federal state Frankfurt is in and which politicians did decide to allow the airport extension) in Frankfurt.

Next Saturday there will be a demonstration at the airport.

The resistance against the airport expansion will not be finnished with the building of the fence, not with the grubbing-up, not with the evacuation of the “Hüttendorf” – We will continue to resist the airport as a climate killer, as a source of noise and environmental pollution as well as an important element of European racist foreclosure system.

The fence will fall – Smash Fraport!

Solidarity with and greetings to Climate rush – Stop airport extensions worldwide!

http://waldbesetzung.blogsport.de/english-information/

Chester (Australia) Forest Rescue Needs You!

14 JAN 08: Chester Forest Rescue Camp is heating up with the first arrest yesterday (impounded surveyors vehicle with lock on) whilst they were trying to enter forest while wet, and possibly spread dieback.

We also issued them with an infringement with a penalty of 40 hours tree planting.

The minister announced that logging will start in February!

Call out for the cavalry!

Chester Forest Rescue Poster here – More details asap…

More arrests in Tasmanian forest destruction

JAN 14, 2008: A camp set up by conservationists almost three years ago was broken up by police on Monday morning at the request of Forestry Tasmania which wants to start logging.

A protester who locked himself in a spiderhole tunnel for over 30 hours has been charged with trespass in Hobart. The activist was one of a group attempting to stop Forestry Tasmania building a road into a logging coupe in the Upper Florentine Valley.

Two other men have also been charged after trying to enter the same tunnel. A Queensland woman was also arrested after evading police earlier by climbing higher up a tree as they used a cherry-picker to bring her down.

Four protesters remain in tree-sits as more people arrived to support activists who have been living in the area. Still Wild Still Threatened say 150 people have gathered for a community walk through the area in support of protesters who are trying to stop a logging road.

“The community members who are out in the Upper Florentine Valley in defence of our old growth forests will be attempting to get into this exclusion zone by any means so they can witness the ongoing destruction of our old growth forests…”

Protesters in Standoff with Power Company Over Swamp Access (Florida, USA)

Jan 6th, 2009

As part of their ongoing struggle against Florida Power and Light (FPL), activists from Everglades Earth First! have set up an encampment at the entrance to the Barley Barber Swamp, demanding entry to ensure that ancient cypress trees are not being killed by water pumping for the adjacent Martin County Power Plant. Following a combined protest/picnic, demonstrators attempted to hike in to inspect the swamp, but were prevented from entering by police. A standoff has ensued.

Jan 6th, 2009

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Swamp Standoff Ends With 17 Arrests
Jan 12th, 2009

Seventeen protesters from Everglades Earth First! were arrested on Saturday, January 10, six of them for crossing into the Barley Barber Swamp, which is owned by Florida Power and Light. This ended a 6-day standoff, in which protesters had camped at the entrance of the swamp demanding entry, accusing FPL of barring the public in order to conceal the fact that its adjacent Martin County Power Plant was destroying the swamp and its 1,000-year old cypress trees through excessive water pumping.

Everglades Earth First! has put out a call for financial support to help bail out those arrested. “Direct action is a community effort that goes well beyond the risk of arrest,” the group said. “It requires broad support from those who wish to see grassroots efforts succeed.”

Watch videos of this and other Everglades EF! actions at their YouTube page

Florentine Arrests – Police raid Tasmanian forest blockade

JAN 12, 08 – Nine anti-logging protesters remain locked to a road in the Upper Florentine Valley in southern Tasmania after refusing to leave their campsite.

Police are trying to break up the two-year-old protest camp so that Forestry Tasmania can begin roadworks and logging. Forty members of the group ‘Still Wild Still Threatened’ were camped in the area this morning when police arrived just after 8:30pm.

The imminent logging of the Upper Florentine forest is a national disgrace, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.
“The Upper Florentine Forest has been deemed of World Heritage value. The imminent logging operation there is a national disgrace. Claims by Prime Minister Rudd that native forest logging is sustainable are patently stupid,” Senator Brown said.

The convoy reportedly contains 12 police cars, including two small buses with an estimated 30 police involved in the operation.

Senator Brown was flying over the site in a helicopter this morning, which was recalled to base following contact from the police. A large banner reading ‘Save our Forests’ can be seen from the sky.

Spokesman Christo Mills says police asked them to leave but they refused. Mr Mills says after a two hour stand-off 30 activists have now been removed, one has been arrested and nine remain locked to a road, according to reports on the ABC website.

“Forest defenders are continuing to hold their positions and will do so for as long as it takes,” he said.

Senator Bob Brown says police had better prepare for a long fight. “I think it will take quite a while to remove these folk…”

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RED ALERT!!!! CAMP FLORENTINE HAS BEEN BUSTED

RED ALERT!!!! CAMP FLORENTINE HAS BEEN BUSTED AND THE BULLDOZERS AND CHAINSAWS ARE MOVING IN RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Early this morning, police stormed a peaceful community blockade in the Upper Florentine Valley. Camp Florentine, located in logging coupe FO044A, has been defending the globally recognised old growth forests of the Upper Florentine for over two years.

This move by police is designed to allow Forestry Tasmania to build 4km of new logging roads into the heart of the valley. These roads will rip apart an ancient and globally significant ecosystem, opening up the valley to industrial scale devastation at the hands of woodchipping barons Gunns Limited.

THE BULLDOZERS AND CHAINSAWS ARE MOVING INTO THE PRISTINE FORESTS OF THE UPPER FLORENTINE VALLEY RIGHT NOW AND WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PEACEFUL COMMUNITY WALK IN THIS WEDNESDAY AT 10AM.

If you are living in Tasmania, please stand up and speak out against the destruction of our precious old growth forests. A community walk in will be held this Wednesday, 14th January 2009 at 10am. Meet at Timbs Track carpark, Upper Florentine Valley. To get to the Upper Florentine Valley, take the Brooker Highway out of Hobart, take the New Norfolk turnoff and follow the signs to Mt Field or Lake Pedder. Continue on through Maydena. Camp Florentine and Timbs Track are 20 minutes past Maydena on the side of the Gordon River Road.

WRITE TO THE POLLIES AND THE NEWSPAPERS. CALL UP YOUR LOCAL MP AND TALKBACK RADIO STATION.

Politicians need to know about your serious concerns with the destruction of the globally significant forests of the Upper Florentine Valley. Become an active citizen and exercise your democratic right to let the government know that old growth logging and the destruction of ancient ecosystems is unacceptable, and that serious changes to legislation and policy need to happen now!

Write a letter (every hand written letter is viewed as representing the opinions of 100 voters, so it’s certainly worth making the extra effort) or send an email to your local federal member and any (or all!) of the following members of parliament. Make an appointment with your local MPs … they are your employees and need to listen to your concerns.

Write letters to the editor of your local newspaper and call up talk back radio. Get the word out in the media!

The Tasmanian Government.

THE PREMIER OF TASMANIA

David Bartlett, MHA

Level 11. 15 Murray St. Hobart, TAS 7000

david.bartlett@education.tas.gov.au

THE LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTY, TASMANIAN DIVISION

Will Hodgman, MHA

Parliament House, Hobart, TAS 7000

will.hodgman@parliament.tas.gov.au

The Australian Government

THE PRIME MINISTER

The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP

PO Box 6022, House of Representatives

Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Email via the PM.s website . www.pm.gov.au

THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION

The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP

PO Box 6022, House of Representatives

Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Malcolm.Turnbull.MP@aph.gov.au

MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, HERITAGE & THE ARTS

The Hon. Peter Garrett

PO Box 6022, House of Representatives

Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Peter.garrett.MP@aph.gov.au

tellpeter@petergarrett.com.au

MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER

Senator The Hon. Penny Wong

PO Box 6237

Halifax Street, Adelaide SA 5000

Senator.wong@aph.gov.au

MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FORESTRY

The Hon Tony Burke MP

PO Box 6022, House of Representatives

Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Tony.Burke.MP@aph.gov.au

SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT & WATER

Mr Greg Hunt

PO Box 6022, House of Representatives

Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600

Greg.Hunt.MP@aph.gov.au

Please contact us at stillwildstillthreatened@gmail.com for more info on what you can do to help us save the outstanding forests of the Upper Florentine Valley.

Donate online or at any Westpac Bank to the campaign to save these precious forests.

Account name: Tasmanias Southern Forests
BSB #: 737001.
Account #: 704815.

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“For the woodchippers. immense power threatens not only our forest, but Tasmania’s future. Not content with our great forests, their greed now destroys not only our natural heritage, but distorts our parliament, deforms our polity, cows our media and stunts our society . Have courage, speak of love, take action yourself, stand up for what you believe, and our world will surely change.”

Richard Flanagan

Speech made at a Parliament Lawns forests rally on 16 March, 2006. Hobart, Tasmania.

13 TASMANIAN FOREST DEFENDERS SUED BY LOGGING COMPANY

January 7th 2009

Tasmanian based logging company Gunns Ltd has issued a law suit on thirteen forest defenders claiming damages for trespass, and seeking an injunction that will prevent the defendants from entering its property and land holdings.

January 7th 2009

The forest campaigners halted work at the Triabunna woodchip mill in an act of civil disobedience to draw attention to the impact of old growth logging on climate change.

The proposed Gunns Ltd Pulp Mill and recent announcements that construction may begin in 2009 will ensure that Tasmanian forest protection will remain a central issue in the lead up to the next federal election.

This lawsuit comes four years after Gunns Ltd issued the now infamous Gunns 20 lawsuit in 2004 against twenty individuals and organisations in response their efforts to protect Tasmania’s native forests. It is clear the desire to protect Tasmania’s forests has not diminished.

Social Justice Centre, Birmingham

The Justice not Crisis, Social Justice Centre is preparing a programe of activities for the New Year including a Bingo Night, a Freeshop, Coffee Morning, and drop in Advice service where people will be on hand to give advice on Housing Applications, benefits, and much more…. Come along and get involved…..

Information can be found on our website www.justicenotcrisis@wordpress.com (diary of Activities)

Our new videos highlighting our campaign to build more socially rented & Council Homes can be found on our website
follow link above.

They are also posted on youtube : Justice not Crisis The Movie http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EoCb_tlAKu0 The setting up our our Land Squat with some humour!!

Justice Not Crisis The Movie Part 2 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TUKb337Yrt8 Shows the Setting upm of The Social Justice Centre in The derelict Firebird Pub again with some humour !!

Radley Lakes saved

Following years of campaigning through legal channels, and the squatting of a building by the side of Thrupp Lake at the beginning of 2007, the Save Radley Lakes campaign is victorious – hoorah! Use the search above for old stories and photos from the campaign – stories about the recent victory and future plans are below.

Yesterday’s (17.12.08) announcement by RWE Npower brought to an end a 41 month campaign to save the last remaining Radley Lakes, Thrupp and Bullfield Lakes, from destruction by being filled with waste pulverised fuel ash (PFA) from the Didcot A Power Station.

It also brings to an end 23 years of filling of old gravel pits in Radley with power station ash, which began in 1985, when the Power Station was run by the nationalised Central Electricity Generating Board and when the environment figured less highly in popular concerns. The choice back then was between landfill with general waste, commercial exploitation, or ash. Local people voted for the ash, which is probably what they would have got anyway.

The ash had been pumped into the gravel pits as a slurry via an underground pipeline. Many gravel pits were filled in this way over the intervening years and people did not seem to mind, though eyebrows were being increasingly raised, and there were objections to the filling of Lakes H and I, which had become a spectacular haven for wildfowl. In 2005, RWE npower sought permission to fill the the two remaining gravel pits. These were the oldest excavations, which had, over the half century or so of their existence, become restored into beautiful lakes and had been given names by local people.

How the Lakes Were Saved (in a nutshell)

The smaller Bullfield Lake was rescued from this fate following protests back in 2005, but the much larger and more important Thrupp Lake has remained under threat ever since, as planning, legal and other battles raged around it. As a last resort, local people even applied to have the area turned into a Town Green. This too failed, but it remains the subject of a Judicial Review, which was due to be heard in the High Court in February 2009. In February 2007, having got all necessary planning permissions and removed the protestors who’d occupied the lakeside building, npower went ahead with clearance work on the site, and many trees were destroyed. Work then had to stop until the Autumn, because of nesting birds. After carrying out some preliminary work in October 2007, npower suddenly ceased their activities on the site.

Then, in February 2008, events took an unexpected turn: npower announced an interim reprieve for Thrupp Lake. A little later, Waste Recycling Group (WRG) openly came forward with a proposal that would save Thrupp Lake for ever. It has taken until now to bring this to fruition. Planning permission was needed, technical problems had to be resolved, a commercial agreement had to be reached; then there was the question of what to do with Thrupp Lake. Many delicate negotiations, it seemed, were going on in the background, culminating in yesterday’s momentous announcement.

Triumph at Last!

To mark the occasion, the Power Station operators invited press and public into the grounds of Sandles, the house on the shore Thrupp Lake. There, Mr John Rainford, the Power Station manager, announced that, because the power station had found better and more sustainable ways of disposing of its ash, there would be no need to destroy Thrupp Lake, not now, not ever. He made it clear that RWE npower was offering The Lake to the local community as a nature conservation area and that discussions were underway with the Northmoor Trust to provide for its management. It was hoped that the house could be converted into an educational centre.

Representatives of the community, Jenny Standen, chairman of Radley Parish Council, and Basil Crowley, chairman of Save Radley Lakes, expressed their satisfaction and delight, thanking npower for their magnanimity and looking forward to working with them in restoring the area to create something to be really proud of. Both expressed gratitude to all the people who had supported the campaign and whose support and tireless efforts had helped bring this about.

With the late December afternoon sunshine casting long shadows across the vestiges of Sandles’ lawn, a jubilant party atmosphere prevailed. Champagne flowed, hands were shaken, cameras clicked and, in a touch of surreality, a man in a frog suit played a solo trombone fanfare at the lakeside to herald the lake’s salvation.

Where the Ash Will Go

The ash that was to have gone into Thrupp Lake will now go to Waste Recycling Group’s Sutton Courtenay landfill site next to the power station where it will be used for engineering, capping and landscaping of the landfill operations. Surplus ash will be stockpiled in a planned new storage facility, which received planning permission back in July, and will maintain WRG’s essential supply of ash after 2015 when the power station will have closed. Because the power station and the waste site are immediately adjacent, the ash can be transported directly across the fence and put into the stockpile, which is not far from the power station boundary. At no time will this ash be transported on public roads, which means there will be no adverse impact on the residents of Sutton Courtenay. Indeed, it will remove the need to import over half a million tonnes of substitute materials after 2015, which would have had an impact!

http://www.saveradleylakes.org.uk/
http://www.radleyvillage.org.uk/news/News0009.htm

Stop the Weymouth Relief Road Update & Videos – wish list & overhanging branch tactic!

Latest news: a technicality has meant a tree top protest against a new £87m relief road scheme in Dorset has continued despite a legal ruling.

The government has given the go-ahead for the Weymouth relief road and Dorset County Council secured a land possession order to evict protestors.

Latest news: a technicality has meant a tree top protest against a new £87m relief road scheme in Dorset has continued despite a legal ruling.

The government has given the go-ahead for the Weymouth relief road and Dorset County Council secured a land possession order to evict protestors.

But the demonstration, which began last Thursday, was continuing on Friday and has delayed work at Two Mile Coppice.

Protestors have now occupied a tree branch overhanging neighbouring land.

In the morning, Dorset County Council served a compulsory purchase order on the land which meant the protestors were legally required to leave.

While the oak tree they are in is on land covered by the notice, the branch they occupy overhangs adjacent Woodland Trust land.

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Tat list – What we need

And latest update (Saturday 20th December):-

www.greenvoice.com – shortly to be a web space for us

PLEASE CIRCULATE

update– we have an address of sorts, and donations and xmas gifts would be great !”!!

Cash is ok to send as it is a secure post box, but phonecards for Orange are better than cash.
Also need AAA and AA batteries – Duracell and Energiser or alkaline ONLY.
Rope – Green or blue polypropelene – 6mm or 10mm thickness.
Rope – Static climbing line – 10mm or larger.
Rope – Dynamic climbing line – any thickness
Rope – arborist lines – we have 2 tree surgeons living with us and this rope is useful.

second hand rope is normally FREE from climbing centres -indoor centres often throw their ropes out every 6 -9 months – just call in and ask for it.

Tarps, plastic sheeting.

Tools – hammers, nails, saws, pruning saws, bill hooks.

2 way radios, nightvision goggles, catapults (to get rope up), grappling hooks. Head torches – LED are best.

The Woodland Trust still own the land that the road is being built on, but have waived their 14 days notice period and told Dorset County Council that it is ok to get on with cutting down the Ancient woodland – basically they have thrown in the towel without even standing up to argue or delay the destruction on their land. The fact that the Woodland Trust still own the land was recorded in the Court case of the 18th december 2008 of Dorset
County Council ‘ v ‘ Persons Unknown in Weymouth County Court. Her Majesty’s Land Registry in Plymouth also confirmed it.

The people of Weymouth brought Two Mile Copse through public subscription. Local people dug deeply into their pockets and put their money into conserving the land for perpeturity, for us and all future generations.

Dorset County Council have so far not given one penny in compensation, either to the Woodland Trust, nor local people who raised the public money to preserve the wood in the first place.

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More update:-

Hi Ho!, HO!, Ho!

Living up 6 trees at weymouth – Two Mile Copse / Teddy Bear Woods. I helped fight against
this road back in 1996, and 2004 and we won it then.

BUT now they gone and done it and cut 70% of the trees…..

We have a 400 year old Oak in Ancient Woodland that’s are protecting and 4 Ash trees reaching 90 feet up into the sky. Also a tall and healthy young elm.

We have a tree house, a net, lots of walkways in the sky and an off route visitors site on the ground.

GET HELP + MEDIA now if u can.

regards

2 Mile Copse Protest Camp
c/o Lorton Barn
Lorton Lane
LittleMoor
Weymouth
DT3 5QH

Sorry we currently are in the process of arranging a site mobile phone – number to follow
shortly

Links/more below & in previous story.

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Following from the Stop the Weymouth Relief Road bulletin. Apparently there is a chainsaw gang now operating 1.5 miles further North from Littlemoor, between Littlemoor and Ridgeway. There are 3 protesters down there but they need more back up. I have been in contact with the protesters occupying the sight at Littlemoor. They are in urgent need of more support from locals to help on the ground and others to help build tree houses along the route, all help would be greatly appreciated.

On site mobiles are 07792717821 / 07807952822

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Videos: 1 | 2

COUNCIL chiefs will go to court tomorrow in a bid to remove a growing number of protesters from the route of Weymouth’s planned relief road.

It comes as the stand-off intensified in Two Mile Coppice as eco-warriors began moving a fence and telling security staff it encroached too far into the ancient woodland.

But today Dorset County Council is hoping to be granted possession of the land by Weymouth County Court.

The council is asking the court to rule that the protesters must leave the property, and if they agree to that request, when they must leave.

The number of protesters reached seven as a camp was set up beneath an oak tree that stands alone in the fenced off area of the woods.

Four protesters set up camp and roped off their own area below three more based up inside the tree.

One new arrival, known only as Andy, said: “We are here to stop the road as there are many reasons why the woodland should not be chopped down.

“The oak tree we are in and beneath is hundreds of years old.

“We heard about the people here and wanted to come to support the action.

“We can help provide food and whatever else they need in the tree.

“If you let the council go ahead with the road it won’t be long before they want to chop more of this beautiful woodland down for development.

“The road won’t actually help prevent traffic congestion in the end anyway.”

A council spokesman confirmed clearance work is continuing in the western edge strip of Two Mile Coppice and said it is hoped this will be finished before Christmas.

She said: “There is a county court hearing today where the county council will be asking for an order for the trespassers to hand over the land to the possession of the council.”

Nick Pepper, 41, has camped in the woods since he came down from a tree which has now been chopped down.

Mr Pepper, who previously lived in Weymouth but now lives in Bristol, said: “As soon as we received the legal papers to evict the tree we thought we’d better have a legally legitimate support camp.

“We are protected under the 1977 Criminal Law Act which stops us from being legally evicted or illegally assaulted.

“We’ve actually squatted in an area of land so we can protect the people up the tree from intimidation or illegal activity.

“There needs to be open access so we can monitor what’s going on.”

Forest and climate activists shut down Gunns’ Triabunna mill woodchip mill, Tasmania

2008-12-16
Seven activists were charged with trespass today after shutting down Gunns’ Triabunna mill for over seven hours this morning. Fifteen people occupied the woodchip mill at 4:45am, with seven activists attaching themselves to a conveyor belt and other machinery.

“The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme White Paper makes it plain that the Federal ALP is not committed to ‘serious and credible’ emissions reductions. There is a failure by policy makers to grasp that we are facing a climate emergency – the policies proposed by the White Paper will result in the disappearance of Tasmania’s unique alpine ecosystems, the collapse of the Barrier Reef, and the salination of Kakadu,” Huon Valley Environment Centre spokesperson said.

“Targets of a 5% reduction by 2020 are pitiful and internationally humiliating. The Australian Government’s increased assistance to large emitters provides a clear demonstration that their priorities lie with heavily polluting big business, and not with Australia’s people and natural environment,” Warrick Jordan said.

“In Tasmania, the logging, burning and woodchipping of old growth forest releases massive quantities of carbon. Gunns Limited is the driver of this grossly irresponsible and morally reprehensible situation,” Still Wild Still Threatened spokesperson said.

“Gunns hides this immense climate crime behind official carbon accounting figures which exclude the logging of native forest. Tasmania’s old growth forests are globally significant as unique ecosystems and carbon stores, and their protection can play a significant role in Australia taking real climate action,” SWST

“The Tasmanian Government has publicly expressed a will to address climate change. If the Bartlett government is serious about addressing climate change then it will legislate an end to old growth logging” concluded SWST.