Pulp Friction (Part 1 of 2) - Gunns Pulp Mill Story

The beauty of the place is astounding. You can't help thinking how lucky we are, how fantastic this country can be. Then you see what they're doing to it. It's a sobering sight, enough to make you wonder what the hell's going on in Tasmania. Well, for one thing there's almost a civil war, the state's split in two over plans for a huge new pulp mill - the biggest in Australia. They're going to build it in classic Tassie wilderness country, and it will chew up four-and-a-half million tonnes of timber a year. One side says that means jobs, investment and hope. The other predicts an environmental catastrophe.

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[marxian00]

@MiMaKBaSS

Survival of the fittest and a social Darwinist - this would be a total nightmare. It would give free reign for the strong to bully the weak, mega powerful corporations to exploit people and the environment, etc.

[MiMaKBaSS]

In a second class economy, all will go the way of the Tasmanian aboriginal and Thylacine. Hopefully Tasmanians themselves will soon sucumb to the survival of the fittest.

[3aw77]

The tourist that come down to Tassie will not see much in the next 20 years , This is tassie why the hell stuff it up for

[erictheangrypenguin]

History never repeats... yes it does! It's 1982 all over again. I've been living on the 'mainland' for a long time, and can't you see that the rest of Australia sees Tassie as King Island cheese, ecotourisim, old world, and the beautiful place that deserves to be. This is madness Taswegians. From an expat who wants to attract people to our state and cares deeply!

[13dazza13]

To ignorant to learn from the past. This proposed pulp mill would be a hugely terrible thing to create. History shows me when I was there having a look at Queenstown one of Tasmania's big tourist attractions unfortunately they learnt a terrible lesson it shows the total destruction of the environment caused by mining ore and that they now benefit from that. When they should be holding the heads low.

[dflutsch]

damn the mill