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Science Forum Index » Environment Forum » The Gunns Clearfelling Handbook Volume 1
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| ChangeAgent |
 Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:58 pm |
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One of the PR miracles of our time is the way Gunns have disguised land
clearing to below the roots as 'forestry'. Nothing could be further from
the truth. What they do is remove an area of bush in its entirety and cart
it to a wood-chipper. It's really 'above ground tree mining' or even 'wood
quarrying'. Their PR spin doctors have carefully nurtured an image of
'forest communities' to cover an industry running mostly for the benefit
of offshore investors and almost totally funded by taxpayers. It has to be
the scam of the millennium.
Gunns recieve approx $200 million per year is subsidies yet only produce a
profit of about $80 million. Without the constant bleeding of our taxes
they are insolvent.
Many crooked politicians are in on the scam. What it is doing to the
worlds weather is an absolute act of bastardry. A mature forest loses huge
amounts of water to evaporation. As soon as the Gunns dozers move in this
is instantly lost. It is never, ever replaced because Gunns swap a forest
for a CROP. These tree 'crops' never grow to maturity because the soils
are so depleted and the rainfall is constantly declining. Thats why
plantation timber
is ALWAYS much smaller in size than native forest. It is an ecological
race to the bottom. It is undoubtably a truth that wood chipping is first
degree ecological homicide. That our government is now paying billions in
drought relief after funding the cause of drought, is the biggest secret
that rural Australia has to give up. Well at least YOU are now informed. |
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