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Not much happening
Published Tuesday January 18, 2005 · Permalink
It seems that during summer time not much is happening on environmental issues in Tasmania. Plenty of people are on holidays and the news cover mostly regrettable natural disasters around the planet. Anyway, just a few things that will be—or are likely to be—happening in Tasmania during 2005:
- 1080 will stop being used in State Forests in December 2005. Therefore, Forestry Tasmania will stop its use, in the same way it stopped using Atrazine in 1997.
- Parliament will continue the discussion about repealing section 32A (112 KB, PDF file) of the Freedom of Information Act. Although Forestry Tasmania is subject to FoI law, it may request exemption under specific circumstances. FoI law still protects information considered ‘commercial in confidence’, including pricing.
- The government should make available the results of public consultation on the projected pulp mill in Northern Tasmania.
- Forestry Tasmania should make public the updated version of Alternatives to Clearfell Silviculture. They were supposed to be released around the time of the past Federal Elections. On hindsight it was good that the results were not released on time. The issue will still be political, but not more than necessary.
I doubt that there will be any real news before March.
PS. 2005-05-16. Additional reservation and other changes were announced in May.
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