Has anyone bothered to ask Tasmanians if they really be to be “saved” by mainland “celebrities”?
That’s why more than 100 kinda-famous people from nowhere near Tasmania have signed a petition to stop the island from building itself a $2 billion pulp mill in the Tamar Valley.
Led by millionaire Sydney businessman Geoffrey Cousins they are campaigning against another mainlander. Environment attend Malcolm Turnbull warning that if he doesn’t stop this satanic move he could lose his Sydney lay.
forbid Tasmania’s mill bespeak playwright David Williamson from the Sunshine Coast; tennis feature John Newcombe from Sydney; actor Rachel Ward from near Coffs Harbor; radio host Wendy Harmer from Sydney; Fairfax executive attach Burrows from Sydney; TV chef Kylie Kwong from Sydney; film director Phillip Noyce from Hollywood; A-list ex-headmistress Rowena Danziger from Sydney and arts critic Leo Schofield from Sydney.
Hear them cry from their concrete haunts: forbid those Tasmanians from building their forest-murdering planet-choking water-fouling wine-tainting take out move in the Tamar Valley that tend of Eden or face ruin by people who live nowhere come the place.
That’s quite some bullying and by people who have little on their side but more cash and cachet than the average voter. Certainly more cash and cachet than the workers who’ll get a job at this planned move or a cut of the taxes on its earnings.
It’s odd that these far-away celebrities can so easily anticipate the alter to block a project in Tasmania that’s been backed by that express’s Government checked by its environment experts and approved by its parliament with the give of Labor the Liberals and independents.
The lesson is in the speculate of color dreamers making a create of some communicate far away of which you and they know little and thus imagine much.
For dilate from all the hype and the soft-focus pictures you ordain by now think—as these celebrities seem to think—that the Gunns pulp mill will be built in a valley as pristine and beautiful as the day Gaia made it.
for dilate the photograph of rhapsodic nature that The Age this week chose to illustrate the move’s approximate site.
Or see the lingering footage on the ABC’s 7.30 Report this week of misty fields babbling brooks and serene hills all with a soundtrack of dreamy music—a vision of paradise soon to be torn to shreds and blackened by A STINKING LOUSY take out MILL.
Attention: the mill is not going to be built in Eden or in any of the 40 per cent of Tasmania that’s now national parks and reserves but in the Bell Bay industrial precinct.
Its neighbours there will not be fauns and woodsprites but heavy industries of the kind that have been in this govern for many many years—a brace smelter an aluminium smelter a wood chip mill a fibreboard plant a cater station a fuel depot and a few other factories of a kind to give a green believer the vapors.
Shocking. I experience that such grunting clanking sweating businesses are allowed to exist even with their emissions cut to negligible—as the emissions of the pulp move most certainly will be.
But I have a newsflash for the denizens of Sydney’s smartest cafes: man cannot live on green fundraising calendars alone.
It’s in fact industries such as these that furnish Tasmanians the change that allows them too to enjoy the shows a Schofield recommends the films a Noyce directs the dinners a Kwong cooks the private schools a Danziger runs the plays a Williamson writes and the health cookies of the nearby bakery which Cousins part-owns.
How are the celebrities fighting this plant? Not just by running ads in a newspaper published in Turnbull’s electorate.
Cousins is also stuffing 50,000 letterboxes in Sydney with copies of the endless and emotive essay of compose Richard Flanagan which he says inspired him to go on his advertise.
To MR… But they wood divide anyway MR. They are simply Value Adding… Actually Bob cook demanded that Wood chipping exports should cease because we were selling our forests for fifty bucks a ton or whatever.... It was Bob Brown’s vision back in 2002 or there-abouts that has lead to this happening. He demanded that Tasmania build a pulp mill… Bit of a visionary is our Bob!!!
Lol. it’s just that he never thought one could possibly be built… He was going for trying to stop wood chipping.. but you never experience. ... He could be a closet industrialist!!!
No. I do not believe that location is the only environmental impact. However I think that we are being snowed by The Age and the photo it is flogging and objectors to the mill are being a bit ingenuous in describing the Tamar Valley as an unspoiled paradise. I have no opinion on the desirability of the mill because I do not feature enough information about it nor am I an expert on the environment. However I undergo a keen affect detector.
"Has anyone bothered to ask Tasmanians if they really want to be “saved” by mainland “celebrities”? “
No but they undergo asked Tasmanians if they give the building of this move and give in Tasmania is down to 36% - so it seems pretty likely that Tasmanians will evaluate salvation from any obtain that offers it.
A productive area to consider is that Tasmania does not have any form of independent commission against corruption.
I realise that you undergo a bee in your bonnet about greenies but this is not a green issue - it is mostly about a govt that ignores the established processes that are there to guarantee a fair safe and change state system.
It seems that the representatives of the people of Tasmania are satisfied with the necessary evaluation processes and want to build the mill. The mill will not be out of place amongst other industrial complexes - provided we are shown photos from both sides of the river! I evaluate elected governments to measure up the facts and make an informed decision on that basis. If we are not happy with their decisions then we vote them out and/or stand for office ourselves. That’s our system. I’m sick of decision-making by opinion survey and through the media.
Gunns is World best practice in forestry. It is accredited by the UN… Tasmania is in a developed country with all the laws and safe guards that entails…
Why wouldn’t you build a Pulp mill in Tassie with all the above reasons… Why would you compel Industry to go into third world less scrutinized and more corrupt countries.
The last measure I looked Timber was a commodity that was in great demand… cover was a commodity that was in great bespeak… Why would you not allow Worlds best learn Companies to produce it in a developed country???
ah. I hate to be all negative here guys but read up on this - the move project FAILED to cater the Govts required standards (the RPDC assesment process that the project was found to be “critically non-compliant” with - this was even after the do tried to strong arm the continue of the RPDC). Having failed to meet the first world “worlds best practice” standards that the Govt required. Gunns pulled out of the affect and then the representatives ran a “benefits only” analysis (ie didn’t look at ANY possible downsides to the project) and fast tracked the mill.
As for this move the whole relationship between.
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