Umm, I dunno…..lemme guess…..were the goal posts moved? Is it going to be where the AFL Tasmanian side will be based?
Posted by Russell Langfield on 08/11/09 at 05:37 AM
Hi Dave I reckon the difference is that one picture is from over the river and the other is from the air.
Oh and a small matter of the missing buildings.
Really it looks like the beloved company are running short of woodchips doesn’t it.
Glad to see the aggravated retention logging.
Posted by Pete Godfrey on 08/11/09 at 07:00 AM
Are you saying was it necessary for Gunns to clear extra land or are you saying something really big could be in the planning for the extra cleared land? Looks like it is going to be spread over a large area if it ever happens.
Posted by d.nicholas on 08/11/09 at 07:44 AM
There isn’t a pulp mill in the bottom photo and i like it the best,even with the illegal clearing
that’s taken place,but this is annoying me.
Give us the answer Dave.
Posted by d.nicholas on 08/11/09 at 09:51 AM
Back again Dave, did you colour in the buildings or are we given an honest look at why it will be the worlds greenest pulp mill.
The paint is very dark green.
Maybe the Dark Green Greenies did it.
Posted by Pete Godfrey on 08/11/09 at 10:03 AM
Maybe the extra land is for the chemical production plant that they will have next to the mill - another feature of the development that seems to have been forgotten. The mill itself will only be one factor in the total environmental problems that this mill will create: there’s the solid waste dump across the road in the Tippogoree Hills leaching toxicity into the water table; there’s the chemical plant; there’s the effluent into Bass Strait and then there’s the mill. These other things should be included in the public protests about the mill; nobody I speak to even knows about either the waste dump or the chemical plant - you never know how many more supporters might come onboard if they realise the full import of what’s going to happen. An accident at the chemical plant could release toxic gas ala Bhopal and human error is ALWAYS a possibility.
Posted by greenwitch00 on 08/11/09 at 12:17 PM
Besides the chemical production plant, there will also be the electrical turbines.
I believe, as ‘witch’ has correctly alluded to, both have been conveniently excluded from the Gunns images.
Posted by Tony Saddington on 08/11/09 at 05:05 PM
One red oval is vertical, the other is horizontal, or could it be the red vertical lines aren’t the same scale ?
Posted by Sam on 08/11/09 at 05:05 PM
Well ! it could always be turned into a riverside
housing development !
Blocks ! would sell like frangers in the Vatican.
d.d.
Posted by d.d. on 08/11/09 at 11:02 PM
So far the guesses have been excellent, but as with all of these STD’s, they can be quite contagious.
Here’s two of my own…..
The first is sheer fantasy, the second is chillingly real…..
The first one the animals have a home…except for the eagle which was most likely torched a few years ago in that mysterious fire…., the second one has neat little windrows which will no doubt make for a rippa fire of green wood waste and create and enough smoke to give people a small taste of what the proposed pulp mill is capable of…
Posted by Dave Groves on 09/11/09 at 05:12 AM
It could be restored to what it was.
Until the plans to build a pulp mill surfaced, it was a timbered reserve for wildlife.
It was listed as a reserve but lost this status under Lennon in order to remove a major hurdle in progressing the mill.
It acted as a barrier between farming and residential in the south and industry to the north.
Posted by Tony Saddington on 09/11/09 at 06:24 AM
Dave:
spot on!
The actual mill footprint is more than twice the size shown in that ‘artist’s impression’ and comes to within metre of the highway. The mill site itself extends over the highway and over the first line of hills into the very Tippogoree Hills themselves, where a water reservoir, landfill area and quarry are planned.
The artist’s impression included only one section of the mill - the land clearing shows where the rest of it will be.
Posted by Garry Stannus on 09/11/09 at 06:29 AM
Hi - For a better view of the latest and final layout and details I suggest you go to the following address http://tinyurl.com/yjdcqtg.
This is Gunns own web site, this whole document has been submitted to the EPA for “approval” the approval process hinges arround is the design “acceptable”.
I suggest you also look at Appendix 1 - Equator Principle statements - The statements are unreal.
Posted by john day on 09/11/09 at 11:37 AM
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Tried that John ! are you having a lend ? on three occasions and each time the computer froze and had to be turned off and restarted, or perhaps just another case of the usual “GUNN’S” foisting of more trickery on the unwary!
d.d.
Posted by d.d. on 10/11/09 at 03:46 AM
I had no problems Don.
It was slow to come up though.
The final schematics show the mill to be much larger
than Gunns ‘artistic impression’.
Posted by Tony Saddington on 10/11/09 at 06:08 AM
Re #14 & 15
Yes, very slow to load.
Also seemed to be a hell of a lot of “waste” being collected, ‘treated’ and diverted into the streams and creeks there which end up in the Tamar, one of which goes through an Aboriginal Site.
Posted by Russell Langfield on 10/11/09 at 09:31 AM
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