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	Summer 2007- 8 LOGGING ... a dead loss RED ALERT! VicForests - masters of scam Election musings How we fared in the election 1080 poison the GOOD news Bastion Point plans abandoned Should we ever endorse native forest logging? INDUSTRY GOSS Trish Caswell steps aside A tough task Black Hole Timbers Sambar deer Population overload Forests have twice the climate moderating value of solar energy The good oil on good energy Burning desires Torching forests - an Aussie tradition Firebreak offsets In the land of just cO2Z Meat-eating water wallies Brumby fails on environment Freeing up Freedom Of Information? Bob Brown goes to the High Court ALP - still the bulldozer brotherhood Three Cheers to Yarra Ranges Council Spring 2007 VicForests - cutting forests, costs and corners The new Victorian reshuffle - what can we expect? SKM checks EPA's checks of DSE's checks of dud logging laws Tree tourism on the rise Australia's 'climate corridor' FOI victory in NSW FORESTS - OUR CLIMATE CALMERS BIOFUEL PUSH A MISTAKE Carbon calculations Brumby turbo charges global warming HowaRudd on forests 'Fire-breaks' environmental Berlin walls The Great Snowy Dehydration project Thomson dam condemned to drought Carbon market encourages chopping forests: study Deadly poison now available from your corner store Government keeps bailing a sinking boat Customers given a bum steer on loo paper Winter 2007 Green Power or Green Wash? A convenient myth Forests and Greenhouse Cutting down forests is good for us Don't be CO2 nned Carbon horse trading Howard - cautious Jobs for the boys That burning desire Logging still on welfare $200 million to countries Fewer kids will cool the planet Australia obliged to make higher cuts per capita Critically endangered plants found in logging area Undermining renewables How green is your electricity? Minister for myths - left high and dry on water arguments Red gums logged to save concrete Summer-Autumn 2007 Insignificant wins for East Gippsland IS LOGGING IN EAST GIPPY ILLEGAL NOW? Feds prefer to change the law Bracks breaks his promise on day one FORESTS??? A TEAM infilrates the ALP Strzeleckis still on the woodchippers' map Rudd and Gillard - not the tree hugging types Annual log truck tally CLIMATE CHANGE, FIRES AND LOGGING RFA - ten years of lies SHAMELESS SALVAGE BANDITS GOVT LOOTS PUBLIC FORESTS AS FIRE CONTROL LOGGERS FOR FORESTS CHEAP AS CHIPS OLD GROWTH DOES SOAK UP CARBON Spring 2006 FROM CROSS CUT SAWS TO COMPUTERS Orange-bellied Parrot OLDIES FOR OLD GROWTH WHERE DOES CRAIG INGRAM STAND ON LOGGING FORESTS??? REFLEX PAPER - 100% HOODWINK QUOLLS Water bandits Dam good decision East Gippy drinking water gets filthier Forest flambé plans thwarted Mill fire deliberate Federal threatened species Act ineffective YET MORE CASES OF ILLEGAL LOGGING IF YOU GO DOWN TO BUY WOOD TODAY YOU'RE IN FOR A BIG SUPRISE Winter 2006 EAST GIPPSLAND'S BIGGEST SAWMILL GOES BELLY UP COOKING THE BOOKS - STOP PRESS FORESTS FORVER TREE HUGGERS CLUB SNOWY SELL-OFF SCUTTLED THE WHEAT AND WOODCHIPS CONNECTION A small win for Red Gums JAPANESE START TO SPURN NATIVE FORESTS NEW ZEALAND GETS IT RIGHT FIRST PRIZE - FOR LANDCLEARING BASSLINK ... Engineers' wet dream turns to a nightmare Autumn 2006 HOW MUCH CAN ONE FOREST BARE? Seven truck roll-overs in two months CHIPMILL STILL RUNS ON OLD TREES Salvage logging increases fire risk PLANTATIONS CAUSE DROUGHT EAST GIPPSLAND'S FOREST BLOCKADES - '05-'06 EPA TICKS OF LOGGING CARNAGE AS TOP JOB RAINFOREST LOGGING AND THE "SHOULD" FACTOR Latest EG industry plan won't work Bracks TRY THIS PM's brother illegally chops down trees CSIRO SCIENTISTS GAGGED BY GREENHOUSE MAFIA CHEQUE BOOK DEMOCRACY RULES - OK! Gillard backs O'Connor Summer 2005-6 SECRET PROJECT FOR LOGGING OLD GROWTH - COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET GOOLENGOOK ENQUIRY Government officers at fault - Prom enquiry Errinundra National Park logged ! DSE ILLEGAL LOGGING INVESTIGATED QUESTIONING WILD DOG CONTROL POISON BAIT TRIALS GOOD NEWS ON BAITS New plan to save the dingo from extinction OH NO - NOT ANOTHER ONE! (what do they put in the wine?) CAMPBELL'S COW COLLARS The State Liberals' forest policy HOWARD'S SECRET $4 MILLION DEAL WITH THE LOGGERS UNION Howard's union man soars GoodWood™ from bad logging? "World's worst forestry practice" standard Spring 2005 ENFORCERS EXEMPT FROM THE LAW 1080 alternative The never ending story - DSE Superbly stuffs up again GIPPSLAND PAPER MILL EXPANSION NEW STATE PROJECT TO ASSIST HURRICANES ANOTHER OIL FIELD OFF THE MARLO COAST GIPPSLAND WATER FACTORY A SPANNER IN THE WOODCHIP WORKS NEW ENVIRO-GROUP FLOUNDERS Country Alliance hopes to upset Greens Know your voting system ... VICFORESTS ASPIRES TO SHODDY CREDENTIALS Australian Forestry Standard Is Japan shunning old growth? Winter 2005 FAIR PRICING - HITS THE LOGGING INDUSTRY FOR A SIXER YALMY ROAD INVESTIGATION INADEQUATE - AUDITOR GENERAL TO GET AWAY WITH TAKING WOOD - DO IT BY THE HUNDREDS OF TONNES shhhh - THE SECRET PROJECT GOES PUBLIC CATTLEMEN MUSTERED OFF THE ALPS Post- logging burns and Greenhouse One logging worker = a $65,714 dole Autumn 2005 WILL GUNNS BE GUNNING FOR VICTORIA'S FORESTS? GUNNS PULPMILL FAST TRACKED BUT HAS GUNNS MISSED THE BOAT? GUNNS - TRIGGER HAPPY What is a SLAPP suit? RFAs all but sunk HOW DO BUSHFIRES START? BIG BUSINESSES RULE GOVERNMENT DSE WINS ENVIRONMENTAL CALAMITY AWARD DSE CHALLENGED OVER YALMY ILLEGAL LOGGING REPORT BRACKS GOVT HAS ALLOWED ILLEGAL LOGGING FOR YEARS $74,000 to hide Goolengook tapes Summer 2004-5 THE SUN SETS ON DAISHOWA VICTORIAN FOREST ALLIANCE FORMED FOREST SAFETY ZONES - READING BETWEEN THE LINES ELECTION POST MORTEM BULLDOZING THE BAW BAW FROG TO EXTINCTION Woodchipper's - murky mergers EAST GIPPSLAND MILL MERGERS HERALD END GAME HALF OF EAST GIPPSLANDS SAWLOGS CHIPPED - CSIRO report Claims of 'sustainability' UNSUSTAINABLE Dairy money goes to Gippsland sawmill Spring 2004 YALMY REPORT - a damning whitewash SPECIAL SPRING FEATURE - ENVIRO - RATS DIVIDE AND CONQUER WWF plan - a death of a thousand cuts GARRETT TOYNE, TOYNE, TOYNE AGAIN CASWELL WANTS INDUSTRY TO BE LOVED Rainforests still logged to within an inch of their edge SCIENTIST NARROWS HIS VISION on forest ecology Winter 2004 EX-ACF HEAD BECOMES WOODCHIPPER REPRESENTATIVE NEW FOREST BILL - ALL SPIN - NO SOLUTIONS NEW QUOLL QUOTAS BIG TREE PROTECTION MEASURES UNCERTAIN ADA RIVER WIN Howard - 30 yrs in politics Latham Squibs on Forests HOWARD BUY$ MORE DONATION$ THIS YEAR'S APPROVED CARNAGE WHERE'S OUR CHAMPION OF THE SNOWY? CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITIES Managing Political Buffer Zones PINING FOR THE BIG ONE - THE 20-20 VISION UNSUSTAINABLE DEPARTMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY PARK LOGGING FINALLY SWEPT UNDER CARPET Autumn 2004 GIANT TREE FOUND Another tree spiking claim YAHOO another QUOLL FIND! 130 trucks a day into Eden woodchip mill Government awards itself a silver medal RENT A POLITICIAN Latham - "keep leveling old growth" DSE LOGGING PLANS STILL IN DISARRAY WHAT CAN I DO? Summer 2003 - 04 GOOLENGOOK moving the spotlight State bushfire report knocks fire furphies on head Our Water - Our Future Public pays for propaganda research Herald Sun deplores WMD Quolls need friends MORONS WITH MATCHES UNWANTED Burnt logs damaged roads Government pays loggers to monitor loggers Tasmania needs help Burning OUR past Spring 2003 VISITORS WANT TO SEE FORESTS - NOT LOG TRUCKS EEG surveys find Potoroos and save rainforest No buts, it's all trunks PASTA FUEL NATIONAL PARK LOGGING CRIME Bob Brown on jobs FIRE FALLOUT Logging Industry Cares for Water WATER Winter 2003 AUDITING THE AUDITORS "ecoSelect" Logging Industry desperate for a hand Snowy National Park Logging - update EAST GIPPSLAND GOING-ONS HOW MANY LOGS LEFT IN THE WOMBAT ? Long overdue regeneration report released Industry News FORESTS and WATER Autumn 2003 LOOTERS - LOGGERS PIRATE SNOWY PARK DURING FIRES GOOD NEWS ON CHARCOAL BURNER SALVAGE LOGGING FIRE FURPHIES RFA GOES UP IN SMOKE WHAT COST GOOLENGOOK REDGUM SLEEPERS CARRY GIPPSLAND PULP LOGS DE fencing DE FENCE WOMBAT FOREST FIRE? Blame it on the "GREENIES" Ministers launch rubber stamp ECOSELECT LOGGING and the LAW GOOLENGOOK review The language of LOGGING No Summer 2002-3 produced Spring 2002 LICENSE BUY-BACK IGNORES WOODCHIPS PLANTATION GLUT SHOULD END OLD GROWTH LOGGING Ingram looks at logging National Parks Goolengook conservationists receive record fines Libs plan to make forests off-limits to public BASSLINK and FORESTS THE WOODCHIP GANG OF FOUR Banks help destroy old growth Winter 2002 OUT OF OLD GROWTH say East Gippslanders! GOOLENGOOK - POST MORTEM One CROEG CLOWN destroys the RFAs credibility and Victoria's RFA REFERENCE GROUPS The Commonwealth helps destroy our Common Wealth MONEY TROUGH REFILLED - FORESTRY FAIRY TALES - The myth of many jobs POLITICAL DONATIONS to the GOVERNMENT GREENIES AND LOGGERS UNITE Watch your language "THESE MEN KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING" EXPERIMENTAL QUOLL KILLING What the new Federal RFA Bill means PLAYING WITH FIRE Autumn 2002 GOOLENGOOK BUSTED!! LOGGING CUT- BACK - CON JOB HUGE PRICE RISE 1c in 5 years for woodchip logs. The GREAT EAST GIPPSLAND WALK Summer 2001-2 Snowy River Sucked Dry by Logging The New Environment Ministers The End of the Logging Industry as we know it? Are you burning possums with your toast? Kosher power companies to buy from DINGO CREEK Rainforest Logging Why VALUE ADDING Isn't the answer Polishing The Turd - The 5 Yearly Review of the EG RFA Spring 2001 Massive increase in woodchip production Quoll's extinction looms Good news on biomass burning WA forest 'win' was a con job Charcoal burner plans across the border Loggers' welfare increases Power and Morality Government blunders exposed Winter 2001 Governments guilty of knee-capping tree-growers to favour native forest destruction DINGO CREEK RAINFOREST Oz Forests - The World's woodchip bargain basement Ever wanted to PIE TUCKEY?? Lawyers For Forests "100% partly or fully rehabilitated" Good news! Latest $$$$$$$$$$$ give-ways				the archive Wood-Fired Power Station in Morwell? Forest Fired-Fired Power Station for Bairnsdale? World Heritage Charcoal for East Gippsland? Australia Breaks Another Record on Woodchips Paper Handshakes - Woodchippers' Gifts to Government NRE to trial bulldozers on Potoroos Jobs Dropping Quicker than Trees Plunder and Profit - Why Woodchippers Won't Leave Garbutt Upgrades 'Picnic Permits' Illusions of 'greeness' NSW leading the rush to burn forests TOURISM - the economic winner for East Gippsland Plantations Can Meet All Woodchip Needs in 5 Years RFA - Australia's Costliest Rip-Off 21 charged after Goolengook bashings Using up our excess forests silly idea no. 173 Burning forests is good for the environment?!? Chip Volumes Rise as Payments Drop: How low can they go?! The Goolengook National Park proposal (Download the Amended National Park proposal as a pdf document) here (6.25MB), and the form letter here (13k) East Gippslands Forests: An Overview of the issues Old Growth Forest: Leviathans of the land An illustrated guide to the Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) East Gippsland's forests at a glance more to be added Older News Articles...
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