Fw: FOREST/CLIMATE ALERT! Final Push Needed to Stop Australia's Tasmanian Ancient Forest Pulping for Throw-Away Paper Consumption

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FOREST/CLIMATE ALERT! Final Push Needed to Stop Australia's

Tasmanian Ancient Forest Pulping for Throw-Away Paper

Consumption

 

By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark, http://www.climateark.org/

and Forest Protection Portal, http://forests.org/

August 30, 2008

 

TAKE ACTION

Gunns of Australia's controversial plans to build a huge pulp

mill to make disposable consumer items largely from

clearfelling ancients forests is close to failing, let us

together make a final decisive push to warn off potential

investors and environmental approvals and achieve its

permanent withdrawal

 

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_tasmania_clim

ate

 

Plans by Australian woodchip giant Gunns Ltd., to continue

clearcutting of Tasmania's ancient forests to feed a massive

new paper pulp mill, appear to be near final collapse. Gunns

is scrambling to raise the cash needed to build the AU$2

billion pulp mill and to meet a looming federal government

environmental approval deadline. Chief executive of Leighton

Holdings, the proposed builder of the mill, has even stated

the project is dead. Join us in supporting massive local

protests, and calling upon Australia's Federal Environment

Minister Peter Garrett to not extend the environmental

approval process, and for the several European pulp interests

to steer clear of funding the project or risk years of protest

and conflict. Let's join together with local protests and

ensure the Gunns pulp mill proposal is permanently withdrawn

from consideration.

 

TAKE ACTION NOW:

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_tasmania_clim

ate