Gunns Ltd continues to pursue its goal of a very large chemical pulp mill in the Tamar Valley.
You are invited to register your interest in being part of a potential class action seeking compensation for damages arising from Gunns Ltd planned pulp mill should it be built.
Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill (TAP) has initiated the register to collate details of interested parties and to determine the extent of possible damages to the community and businesses if the proposed pulp mill proceeds.
Did you know that the State Government passed a law in 2007 that removes your right to appeal for compensation for any harm caused by Gunns’ planned pulp mill?
Report prepared by TAP, 2007.
Gunns Ltd and the Tasmanian Government both trumpet the economic benefits of an anticipated $6.7 billion boost to the state economy with 1617 new jobs from construction and 292 jobs long term.
A Better Australia and TAP conducted two workshops with approximately 120 members to plan strategies to stop the pulp mill.
Sorted outputs from TAP/ A Better Australia presentations on 21 Jan 2008
What concerns does audience have for the future?
Social issues
Unrealisable expectation
The new petition to the Rudd Labor Government is an independent Tasmanian community initiative for everyone left at risk by the Gunns pulp mill approvals process. Download your copy of the petition from below.
What is the petition about?
This is the first forum in a series jointly organized by ABA (A Better Australia) and TAP (Tasmanians Against the Pulpmill) to examine current and future problems confronting Australia and to develop strategies for dealing with them.
The format is an open public forum, democracy in action you might say, led by guest speakers with the emphasis firmly on public participation. If you have something to say, you will be heard.
WHERE: Community Centre behind Riverside High School, West Tamar Rd, Launceston (entrance off Brownfield Lane)
WHEN: Monday January 21st at 7.00pm
The group ‘A Better Australia’ www.abetteraustralia.com has developed an overview of threats and opportunity costs of Gunns’ pulp mill proposal. It is also available as a high resolution down-loadable image below.
Lennon's priorities
Tom Baxter Pulp mill subsidies: transport just the tip of the iceberg.
Originally published on www.tasmaniantimes.com 27 November 2007.
Richard Flanagan and Lindsay Tuffin are rightly concerned by the latest transport subsidies promised from the public purse for the benefit of Gunns Limited and its pulp mill.
But let’s not miss the wood for the trees. The pulp mill’s total taxpayer subsidy will far exceed $110 million, overwhelming the economic case Gunns made for the mill - a case apparently accepted by Malcolm Turnbull.
The Tasmanian Government has not investigated the financial risks of the mill to the State and documented the subsidies. The economic viability of the pulp mill has not been tested in public.
Below are three studies of the financial impact of Gunns' proposed pulp mill from individual members of the community, presented in an attempt to redress this important gap in the assessment.
The Tamar valley pulp mill story is complex but cut to the chase here.
Did you know?
The proposed pulp mill is (May 2008):
The State government promotes only the benefits of the pulp mill, and ignores the harm to:
