“Tasmania's timber-dependent families are looking for a timely decision from the commonwealth”

Barry: It would be so easy for the commonwealth to have them all turning chair legs out of pulpwood.

Again, a pro-pulp mill article that is long on one-sided rhetoric and short on substance. No wonder there is widespread concern among the citizens of the Tamar Valley about this ever increasingly discredited proposal and its sham of an approval process.

Why don't you stupid people crawl back into your holes and read what Barry had to say.

Barry, you have summed up the problems very cogently, but still the naysayers will persist in their asinine opposition. One wonders where their brains are.

David

If the proposed Tamar mill is based on sound science how come the Gunn's veneer mill at New Norfolk is closing due to a shortage of suitable logs?

Who says dioxin-like compounds cannot be created with chlorine dioxide?

Can this boundless wood supply be sustained if rainfall declines 25%?

This article certainly exposes the radical green agenda to oppose the pulp mill on just about any ground they could think of. The so called risk assessment for the greens that claims the Pulp Mill will inhibit rain and snowfall 1600 km from Tasmania to New Zealand snow fields is just as fanciful as impacts on commercial scallops caught to the east of Flinders Island.

Whilst this nonsense has been exposed for a long time (http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,20545497-5006550,00.html ) it was still being pedaled in Parliament House and in the Media only in the last weeks.

Such outrageous claims have been disproved time and again by international studies and baseline and detailed community monitoring of the Victorian pulp and paper mill that also discharges treated effluent into Bass Strait.

Yet it seems that these claims of doom and gloom have also been dumped on an unsuspecting Chief Scientist by people claiming to be ‘experts’. Let’s hope that the Federal Minister, Malcolm Turnbull and the Chief Scientist read Barry’s article.

Having moved from the mainland to Tasmania I am totally amazed that the people here don't want to allow a company to establish jobs that will help keep kids in Tasmania. I grew up about 16km from the pulp mill in the Latrobe valley in Victoria and have seen the improvements made to that plant over the years knowing that the mill has been there for over 50 years and I wholeheartedly support the idea of building a new modern and up to date pulp mill in Bell Bay where other industires are already operating.
In relation to the comment on the veneer mill, I fail to see a connection with a veneering process and a pulp mill as they are looking for totally diferent log types for each process.
I really think the time has come for people to stand up and be counted and to tell the wilderness people that we are all conservationists in our own way and we do not need idealistic people building walls against modern industry simply for the sake of being heard. Tasmania is a truly beautiful state and with the amount of natural bushland already locked up in national parks and with the phasing out of old growth harvesting, the state will have natural habitat for the bush creatures for generations to come provided they are managed properly.
A classic response to the greens and wilderness people would be to look at the fires in Tasmania and Victoria over recent summers and ask what they are doing to prevent the forrest floor build up of fuel and more improtantly, where were they when the bush was burning?
Same with the protesters who sabotage the livelyhood of those who make their living from the bush.

With a propper management program and with correct harvesting procecedures and processes, I believe we can have the best of both worlds. A sustainable industry, beautiful natural forests and an abundance of wildlife existing together in a wonderful state while allowing for employment opportunity and quality of life for the psople working in the timber and allied industries.