Month: August 2007

This week the Greens will be voting no to Gunns’ proposed polluting chemical and pulp mill. You elected us to parliament to represent the community, not to be a rubber stamp for big business who represent only the interests of their shareholders, and often against the long-term interests of Tasmania. If built the pulp mill…

THE Gunns pulp mill may add 280 jobs to the Tasmanian economy but at a cost of an extra 216 lives lost in extra deaths from respiratory disease and log truck accidents. In addition, the negative impact of the pulp mill will cost 1044 jobs in the tourism industry and at least 175 jobs in…