VicForests discover another giant tree - then cut it down

In East Gippsland Victoria, VicForests, the government owned logging company recently announced to the media that it had just discovered an "ancient and precious tree", and because of their brand-new, "big tree policy" they would be careful not to cut down the tree when they clear-felled all the forest around it.

Unfortunately VicForest's "one big tree policy" excludes all the other ancient trees remaining in East Gippsland.

This clip shows an example of the kind of trees that VicForests is clear-felling to feed the Japanese owned Woodchip mills at Eden in NSW and Maryvale Victoria.

To date the Victorian Government has bankrolled VicForests operations with over 25 million dollars in loans that have kept the company out out of bankruptcy. After 8 years of operation VicForests is yet to produce even one dollar of profit for the government that created it in 2004 following the controversial logging of the Goolengook valley by its predecessor Forestry Victoria.

Government loans to VicForests are bankrolling the cost of logging old-growth forest in East Gippsland and the rest of Victoria. 90% of the trees clear-felled by VicForests are woodchipped and exported to Japan or used locally by the 100% Japanese owned, Nippon Reflex Paper Company to make the infamously unethical REFLEX brand of office paper.

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[charbonou2]

Why are OUR tax dollars paying for this!??!? GRRRRRR

[zone05hunter]

very big tree nice vid

[weskittun]

Bunch of meatheads doing this!