Taswegian

good point you raise re the Boyer veneer mill, it is closing because just about all of Tassie's old growth forests are now reserved in National Parks because of green campaigns. This mill relied upon old growth to produce the much sort after veneer for high quality furniture, a quality you can't get from regrowth.

The pulp mill will be using regrowth and plantation grown wood (young wood makes best writing paper.)

Why not visit the CSIRO Web site its good all the info you are looking for, perhaps also take Taz with you looks like he still needs a good rest.

Timber families? These are the people who clearfell our forests and burn everything left living with napalm.

"Bell Bay is the right location" says Bazza, totally ignoring the wishes and needs of the thousands of people in the Tamar valley who exercise their right to say otherwise.

"Bell Bay not a deterrent to tourism growth" he says. But those other industries don't cut down Tassie's native forests, they don't stink out the area, they don't want to replace our farms with trees, and they don't take hundreds of gigalitres a year of water out of our catchments to grow near worthless pulpwood, but they DO already punch a lot of pollutants into the air shed when the AMA says we can't afford any more.

Barry's sad blather continues the grotesque arrogance of the loggers who believe that they should dictate to the public how, when and where our trees should be cut down, how much public forest we should be allowed to enjoy, where a pulp mill should be located...the whole gamut of logger nonsense.

The people who ravage our remaining forests aren't the only ones dependent on forests Barry. So are the rest of us, and they belong to the public, not to you and to Gunns.

Don't want to be too critical of your knowledge Mikester but I'm more that happy to help you get up-to-date with a few matters. My research shows that the Bell Bay region is home to 3 woodchip mills and two sawmills. Two of the woodchip mills have been operating for near 30 years and as Mr Chipman states this has had no impact upon tourism based industries becoming establish there.

Regarding forests did a bit of research there also, looks like Tassie has a fair wack of forest, around half its total land base is under native forest cover including 1 million hectares of old growth forest lock up in reserves. Also understand that close to half of Tassie's total land base is national park or world heritage. So I would say there is a pretty good balance in place for all the various interests.

Also it looks like Gunns has a fair sized holding of private land growing tree plantations and this will become the main resource for their pulp mill.

Sounds like good business sense to maximise the value of your own grown resource

Taswegian; checkout this document “Sustainability Indicators for Tasmanian Forests 1996-2001”

http://www.rpdc.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/63578/RFA03_sustainability.pdf

Then take a glance at this lot before asking all your federal candidates some interesting home grown questions about Gunns proposed pulp mill impacts.

http://www.acfonline.org.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=412

Sure; cinders and co will say this is only covering old ground however I have something else for the TCA to chew on.

TJ watch this evolve. A national catalogue of “modern luxury contemporary designs” features a fresh statement on the front page “ -- are proud to be an official campaign partner” a reference to their latest range of “Australian Made” furniture note; solid dining settings from $2000, plus, buffet & hutch likewise.

I only started asking questions on the origin of our “Ash” furniture several weeks back but the local TCA rep got the story immediately. Competition from Asia is fierce.

How much assembled wooden style is shipped from the Tamar region?

You really have to wonder why Malcolm Turbull is delaying his decision on the pulp mill proposal. Clearly this mill will be the most up to date pulp mill in the World. The scare mongering by the anti everythings is insane and has even got Geoffrey Cousins on the wagon. Of course Geoffrey Cousins with his enormous scientific knowledge would know more about pulp mills than anyone in the Universe!? Rather than listen to Geoffrey Cousins it would do Malcolm Turnbull better to investigate the connections between Bob Brown, Dick Smith and Geoffrey Cousins. I smell a rat....or should that be a couple of dead sea eagle's there!

Totally agree with your comments Wilky, I’ve done a fair bit of my own research checking out what both sides have been saying and now convinced that this mill will be a great benefit to Tasmania.

There is a old saying that I do think best describes those hell bent on stoping the mills development, that being, “There is non so blind than those that refuse to open their eyes”.

I'm quite intrigued by your comments about links between Mr Smith, Cousins, Brown and dead sea eagles, please tell us more.