The News Review:
- Stop myths about Tasmania’s mill
- Tasmanian geothermal company makes ASX debut
- Archaeological find rewrites Tasmania’s history
- Empire Energy Announces Phase I of Its Exploration Drilling Project…
- Agreement Reached To Transfer Mersey Community Hospital Australia
- Scallops make a sustainable comeback
Stop myths about Tasmania’s mill
The Australian – Sep 25, 2007
Timber Communities Australia has conducted extensive research during the past four years to confirm that the science behind the project is sound and the mill will be of great benefit toTasmania. Following the demise of the previous proposal for a pulp mill at Wesley Vale the then federal Labor government charged the CSIR to develop with public input environmental guidelines for any future kraft pulp mill. In 2004 the Tasmanian government authorised the Resource Planning and Development Commission to review and update these guidelines with extensive public and scientific engagement. The World Bank recognised these guidelines as appropriate. Bell Bay is the right location. It is home to Tasmania’s largest industrial estate including an aluminium smelter ferro-alloy processing plant power station and various timber processing operations and is the main shipping port in northern Tasmania. The proposed pulp mill site is next to two operating woodchip mills on land zoned heavy industrial with an existing deep-water port… Each year Bordeaux alone produces 850million bottles of fine wine and attracts three million tourists. Both regions are also home to extensive industrial forestry including a wide range of pulp and paper mills. Sadly these facts are ignored by opponents to the Tasmanian project. The traditional politically motivated anti-forestry forces gathered to oppose the project. It was clear they had one goal: to destroy the project with whatever means possible. The RPDC assessment process was attacked including being bogged down in legal argument from the Tasmanian and Australian Greens directed towards an RPDC assessment panel member for apprehended bias. The Greens succeeded.
Tasmanian geothermal company makes ASX debut
EnergyCurrent – Sep 25, 2007
KUTh Energy raised US$5. 09 million through its initial public offering (IP) of 23. 3 million shares at US$0. 22 per share in its debut on the ASX under the code KEN.
Archaeological find rewrites Tasmania’s history
Homes Worldwide – Sep 25, 2007
There's a lot more to discover in what is now thought to be one of Australia's richest archaeological sites. These findings could not have occurred if the area had been flooded by the Hydro Electric project. Awarded World Heritage Area status in 1982 which secured its survival this incredible primeval wilderness is now protected and is home to Tasmanian devils quolls orange-bellied parrots groves of Jurassic pencil pines and ancient dolertie crags. Used as a backdrop in the Walking with Dinosaurs documentaries it continues to amaze the world and slowly reveal its many secrets.
Empire Energy Announces Phase I of Its Exploration Drilling Project…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 25, 2007
(25-SEP-07) Business Wire. — Empire Energy Corporation International (TCBB: EEGC) (the "Company") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Great South Land Minerals Ltd (GSLM) has issued full turnke.
Agreement Reached To Transfer Mersey Community Hospital Australia
Medical News Today – Medical News Today (press release) – Sep 25, 2007
The Commonwealth will put in place interim arrangements to run the hospital from date of transfer until the community entity has been established. I now expect that to be early next year. The agreement comes after lengthy and often difficult discussions with the Tasmanian Government. nce a draft agreement had been finalised the Tasmanian Minister rushed to sign. For its part the Commonwealth wanted to be sure that Tasmania’s acceptance was not couched in terms that would prevent restoring services at the Mersey including a Level 1 Intensive Care Unit. I am now satisfied that the new hospital is not precluded from delivering the same range of services as was delivered for many years until the Tasmanian Government’s recent downgrade. The Mersey Community Hospital will become a community-controlled and Commonwealth-funded public hospital providing a comprehensive range of health services.
Scallops make a sustainable comeback
ScienceAlert – Sep 25, 2007
By 2007 – just a few years later – catches are regular prices firm and the remaining scallop fishers enjoying a new and unprecedented stability. The miracle says Malcolm Haddon is down to an industry which took control of its own destiny and decided to fish for sustainability based on clear knowledge of its resource. The University of Tasmania fisheries scientist worked with the scallop fishers of Tasmania and Victoria through their darkest hours and there is a touch of emotion in his voice as he recalls the transformation from goldrush mentality to guardians of the future. “Back to the 1920s the story of scallops was one of serial depletion. Every time new scallop beds were discovered there was a boom: boat capacity grew too fast and in no time the resource was fished out. There were huge booms in each of the 1960s 70s 80s and 90s – and with gear getting better all the time they were fished out equally fast. Almost as soon as a new bed was found it was gone.