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Don Burke speaks in favour of Tasmanian Pulp Mill

By Leon Ashby,


 Don Burke speaks at a public event in favour of Gunn's Tasmanian pulp mill.


   

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Don Balk

By: monkeyjedi (Registered ) on 10-10-2007 02:54

What a goddamn sellout! I can't believe someone as 'environmentally aware' as Don Burke would do such a thing. He's a joke.

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What's your problem?

By: Graham Young (Registered ) on 11-10-2007 02:45

So you disagree with Don Burke and he's "selling out". Ever considered the possibility that you might be wrong?

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Breathtaking

By: adrian9737 (Registered ) on 12-10-2007 03:52

Short-sighted, not even based on economic sense. We need trees more than pulp. We need tourists more than pulp. We need to call a halt and show we're interested in the planet, not big business.

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Hmmm

By: The N E (Registered ) on 12-10-2007 04:31

Interesting. Don't write him off as a sell-out too quickly (for one thing he's always been of the cornucopian philosophy - technology will get us out of anything) 
Leaving aside my distaste for his attitude and choice of phrases ('Piddly people'? Very respectful) 
this appears to be another lovely case of each side missing the others point. 
Those in favour say it's best practice, what more can we do. Those against say it's a pulp mill, nothing is good enough. 
And as usual both sides hold the same values - employment is good, paper is necessary, local production is good, Indonesian logging is bad, environment needs to be looked after. 
What is needed here is for both sides to sit down and have a rational chat about the issue, based on solid facts from independent bodies. Don Burke is a gardener, not an environmental assessor - his opinion on the quality of the operation are rather irrelevant.

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Import paper

By: Graham Young (Registered ) on 12-10-2007 08:51

Adrian, what do you write your shopping lists on, or attend to your personal hygiene with? Leaves? How is it that so many Australians are happy to import paper, with all the CO2 that involves, from overseas countries, who they also want to cut down their forests, and take the risk of the manufacturing process, rather than do some value adding here?

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