The News Review:
- Tasmanian fodder prices soar
- Bloomberg.com: Arts and Culture
- PULP MILL PRJECTIN AN ECNMIC MIRAGE
Tasmanian fodder prices soar
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Jun 21, 2007
Daily newspapers are carrying advertisements from farmers desperately seeking feed. Prices for hay have doubled on previous seasons. Doug French from the Agricultural Contractors Association of Tasmania said that the situation was getting tight with very little feed coming onto the market. “Well I think it’s getting pretty serious there’s very little hay for sale.
Bloomberg.com: Arts and Culture
Bloomberg – Jun 21, 2007
The hotel had a wedding partyin residence during our weekend stay. It's popular with businesstravelers on weekdays. No visit to Tasmania would be complete without sampling theisland's food. At the hotel restaurant Henry's South African chef AndreKropp blends Tasmanian produce including Huon mushrooms andscallops from Spring Bay with Asian flavors in the modernAustralian style. r venture into town to North Hobart's Elizabeth Streetfor an enclave of trendy eateries. At Amulet we enjoyed a mealof organic fresh local produce including Pernod-steamed musselswith garlic rouille and the bizarrely named Tasmanian ravishingrabbit ravioli served with broad beans and zucchini. Stormy Night The more athletic can walk off their excess by climbing tothe top of Mount Wellington which forms the backdrop to Hobart.
PULP MILL PRJECTIN AN ECNMIC MIRAGE
Tasmanian Greens – Jun 21, 2007
Greens Shadow Treasurer Peg Putt MHA said it was extraordinary that neither the Government nor Treasurer Aird had factored in the potentially devastating impacts of the proposed chemical and pulp mill on the fishing tourism wine aquaculture real estate farming and boutique food industries and were essentially flying blind when it came to an accurate picture of the economic impact of the proposed mill. “I put it to the Treasurer and Secretary of Treasury Mr Challen that the Allen Consulting Group report upon which Gunns have made their generous estimations and which have been spruiked continuously by the government is a report that had factored in the so-called benefits of the pulp mill but not the negative impacts and they did not disagree. “The public of Tasmania and the tens of thousands of Tasmanians employed in the tourism fishing wine aquaculture and clean green primary industries need to know that the government is flying blind when it comes to the potential negative impacts of this mill and their economic future is being gambled with… “I put it to the Treasurer and Secretary of Treasury Mr Challen that the Allen Consulting Group report upon which Gunns have made their generous estimations and which have been spruiked continuously by the government is a report that had factored in the so-called benefits of the pulp mill but not the negative impacts and they did not disagree. “The public of Tasmania and the tens of thousands of Tasmanians employed in the tourism fishing wine aquaculture and clean green primary industries need to know that the government is flying blind when it comes to the potential negative impacts of this mill and their economic future is being gambled with. “The fishing industry alone is worth $440 million a year plus to Tasmania and could be the first to be decimated by a dioxin contamination but has the government considered this? No. “It is dangerously irresponsible for the government to risk Tasmania’s environment and social and economic future based on only half the facts. “Business history is littered with the carcasses of corporations that fudged the figures and Tasmania’s future is similarly on the line. “The pulp mill is a big business with big risks and needs the objective analysis that is so far lacking in the government’s economic projections.