And what a gig it will be - but the action will be outside, not with the government reps. When getting re-elected is more important than everyone having somewhere to live, with health care, clean water and clean air, and a fair and equitable system for all Tasmanians, this is not a government capable or interested in planning for the future benefit of us all.
Bartlett must be spinning so fast, we could register him as a new form of renewable energy.

Seeing as we know that the pollies read this blog I’m wondering just why this action has been pre-advertised, as I feel sure that they now having been pre-warned may well re-schedule .

                    d.d.

Ohh d.d.
You are a classic!
Why should the community not be aware that here is the opportunity for the voices and actions to be noticed.
It’s just one move on the chess board. The time will come when the reality bites.
This project has lost any credibility, considering that in order to be a profitable and successful venture, they have to be able to sell the pulp to a high end market. As the Deputy mayor said at that meeting about the pipline permit, “No social license- No project”!!
Just like that!!
Without the social license,or local community support,this venture is going to leak…
Any time, any day, any night!
The people will not go away, they will fight this monster until the Market rejects the Tassie Pulp for the unjust nature of a corrupt LabLib coalition against the people of the Tamar region.
How many trucks will need to use the roads to Long Reach each day again?? To have a smooth schedule, they will need the suuport of the community - without it, their supply will run into difficult times - any time, day, night - sun or rain.
If they think they have to avoid the meeting on Saturday 4th October, then it is even more proof how nasty and cunningly they have stirred the people up. The gloves are off and this corrupt project will be rejected all the way.
Ohh, and the there is the competition:
Cheaper, faster, lower in many ways: http://www.farminguk.com/PopularNews/Uruguay-Timber-plantations-attract-European-investors._13260.html
Remember, Eucalypts have not as many insects to survive in exotic places, they will grow so fast and cheap that Tassie has no chance on the international pulp market to be profitable without having to get the wood delivered even cheaper than in the past.
It is a downhill struggle for them and Aird can promise them as much as he likes, the consumers must be happy to purchase the products -...

Good riddance to pulp mill
http://www.times-standard.com/letters/ci_13376310
Letters to the Editor
Posted: 09/19/2009 09:20:02 AM PDT
Bob Simpson hopefully spoke the truth in the “Pulp or Parts?” article in the Thursday, Sept. 17 edition of the Times-Standard when he stated, “You’ll never permit another one in the U.S.”

And if we the people indeed never permit such an industrial dinosaur to be built upwind from 30,000 residents—well, thank goodness for that! For over 60 years the various pulp mill owners spewed toxic and cancerous waste products into the air and sea with little or no regard to the tens of thousands of residents and surfers who had to endure the visible, invisible and odoriferous well-known trait of Eureka.

But it was all for profits and jobs and that factor ruled the day for 40 years. We can all feel empathy for employees who lose their jobs when society advances and their jobs become a thing of the past. Hopefully this county can help the displaced employees find jobs of which the entire community can be proud.
Jon Hafstrom

Eureka