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Tassie Pulp Mill

Subject: Tassie Pulp Mill
From: "Evan Beaver" <>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:51:31 +1000
Just checked. It's actually totally illegal to grow Industrial Hemp;
even those with THC levels that low that it is impossible to use it as
a drug.

On 10/9/07, Evan Beaver <> wrote:
> Yes, I'm pro-'hemp' too... but for some reason it's not politically 
> favourable.
>
> On 10/9/07, Tony Russell <> wrote:
> > Why not just plant non-toxic Indian Hemp ?  It grows fast, needs no
> > bleaching, and makes very good paper.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 
> >  On Behalf Of Evan Beaver
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:06 PM
> > To: Stephen Ambrose
> > Cc: ; Ben Allen
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Tassie Pulp Mill
> >
> >
> > My education also suggested that these selective logging coups tend to
> > grow back as mono-cultures, in the south-east forests it was Silvertop
> > Ash. If all you want is pulp, why use old growth? There's no timber
> > issues, the whole thing just gets mulched. Fast growing euco plantations
> > would be my choice. You could kill 2 birds with one stone and find a
> > salt tolerant species and lower the water table in some places too.
> >
> > EB
> >
> > On 10/9/07, Stephen Ambrose <> wrote:
> > > Hi Ben,
> > >
> > > I also agree with David that the establishment and harvesting of tree
> > > plantations on cleared farmland is preferable to the loss of existing
> > > forests.
> > >
> > > My concern about Ben's suggestion of harvesting old-growth native
> > > forest over cycles in excess of 100 years is that clearing of some
> > > forest areas in South-west WA in the 1960s/70s resulted in the spread
> > > of Phytophthora and subsequent dieback of extensive areas of Jarrah
> > > and Karri forest. I realise that heavy machinery used in mining and
> > > transporting bauxite ore (rather than logging) was largely responsible
> >
> > > for spreading the fungus, but heavy machinery is also involved in
> > > logging and transporting timber these days.
> > >
> > > Stephen Ambrose
> > > Ryde, NSW
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: 
> > >  On Behalf Of Dave Torr
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 6:57 AM
> > > To: Ben Allen
> > > Cc: 
> > > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Tassie Pulp Mill
> > >
> > > But surely plantations on farm land would be preferable to the loss of
> >
> > > existing forests?
> > >
> > > Given our apparently insatiable desire for paper then a pulp mill is
> > > needed somewhere - and I guess that having one in Aus where we have so
> >
> > > control over the environmental conditions is better than using one
> > > overseas where we have no knowledge of what is happening - and also
> > > better for our trade balance. I guess the logging will happen whether
> > > we process the stuff here or export the raw wood chips!
> > >
> > > On 08/10/2007, Ben Allen <> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am not well versed on the Tassie Pulp Mill issue and do not
> > > > pretend to
> > > be well informed on the issue of pulp mills.
> > > >
> > > > However I do feel that I would prefer to see thousands of square
> > > > miles of
> > > native forest harvested over cycles in excess of 100 years (as was
> > > practiced in WA) then to see the present preferred solution of tens of
> >
> > > thousands of square kilometers of mono-specific, naturally sterile
> > > cultivated forest as we seem to have now.
> > > >
> > > > The very sad and painful loss of the old habitats, old trees and
> > > > varied
> > > flora and fauna that was built up in the ecosystems of these old
> > > growth forests is in itself preferable to the destruction and
> > > harvesting of vast areas of planted and managed forests, with little
> > > disturbance to any bird life, fauna or other levels of activity
> > > because of the very lack of life in the mono-cultured environments.
> > > >
> > > > Obviously the ideal is to have no harvesting, but if that is not an
> > > economic reality then I personally would prefer to see the use of long
> >
> > > cycle native forests with a managed harvesting system to promote
> > > diversity and species survival at every level.  I am certainly not
> > > keen on the widespread use of cultivated mono-specific tree cropping
> > > which seems to be the present trend.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Ben
> > > >
> > > > from [Tony Russell (
> > > http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=
> > > +from:
> > > &amp;idxname=birding-aus&amp;sort=date:late )]
> > > >
> > > > To: "'Rosemary Royle'" <>, "'Evan
> > > > Beaver'"
> > > <>, "'Birding-aus (E-mail)'"
> > > <>
> > > > Subject: Tassie Pulp Mill
> > > > From: "Tony Russell" <>
> > > > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:21:00 +0930
> > > >
> > > > Maybe you've got a government with half a brain in its head
> > > > Rosemary. Our
> > > governments are still suffering with the extractive mind set of the
> > > European rapists of a bygone era. Tony. -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rosemary Royle  Sent: Thursday,
> > > October 04, 2007 8:35 PM
> > > To: Evan Beaver; Tony Russell; Birding-aus (E-mail) Subject: Tassie
> > Pulp
> > > Mill "The debate about whether or not it was in Australia's best
> > long-term
> > > interest to cut down trees and turn them into low-value pulp never got
> > a
> > > guernsey." >From the other side of the world it seems difficult to
> > believe,
> > > in factit seems almost criminal, that it is still possible to build a
> > pulp
> > > mill and feed it with native forest in a country like Australia. I
> > know the
> > > UK is not a good example - we chopped our forests down hundreds of
> > years ago
> > > for ships, houses and charcoal. But most wood pulp in Europe now comes
> > from
> > > managed forests in Scandinavia. Rosemary Royle, Wales, UK
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