Gunns
Gay abandon of triple bottom line principles in Tasmania beckoned his departure
Gunn's chairman John Gay abandoned triple bottom line principles for a means to achieve ends strategy.
John Gay's departure was of his own making. He ignored stakeholders - ordinary Tasmanians who value their forests. He labelled them conveniently 'Greens', directed unlimited company resources to try to legally intimidate them.
Gunns' exploitative arrogance maintains it will sue anyone to protect its ‘commercial interests’
Last month, 30 January 2010, Tasmania's infamous corporate logger, Gunns Ltd, dropped its multi-million dollar defamation suit against environmental activitists protesting against its immoral pulp mill logging threat to Tasmania's old growth native forests.
Sue Pennecuik calls for Victorian laws against corporate SLAPP harassment of environmentalists
Following Gunns' complete abandonmment of its case which has tied up 20 Tasmanian anti-logging campaigners and their supporters for up to five years of their lives, Victorian Greens parliamentarian Sue Pennicuik MLC called for the Victorian Government to introduce legislation to prevent corporations from ever again similarly abusing the courts with Strategic Litigation Ag
Gunns woodchip mills drastically downsize production
A Gunns' woodchip mill at Longreach in Tasmania
Is the final nail in the coffin for the proposed Gunn’s Tasmanian pulp-mill an economic one?
Tasmanian mills are closing down left, right and centre.
Gunns in trouble: Economic crash may leave forests standing; flatten wood-chip industry
Illustration by Gustave Doré for of Jean de la Fontaine's fable of La Mort et le bûcheron
FOREST/CLIMATE ALERT! Final push needed to save Tasmania's ancient forests from woodchippers
FOREST/CLIMATE ALERT! Final Push Needed to Stop Australia's Tasmanian Ancient Forest Pulping for Throw-Away Paper Consumption
(Image is Piguenid's 's painting of the Tasmania Grose Valley - circa 1887)
Gunns of Australia's controversial plans to build a huge pulp mill to make disposable consumer items largely from clearfelling ancient forests is close to failing, let us together make a final decisive push to warn off potential investors and environmental approvals and achieve its permanent withdrawal.
Plans by Australian woodchip giant Gunns Ltd., to continue clearcutting of Tasmania's ancient forests to feed a massive new paper pulp mill, appear to be near final collapse. Gunns is scrambling to raise the cash needed to build the AU$2 billion pulp mill and to meet a looming federal government environmental approval deadline. Chief executive of Leighton Holdings, the proposed builder of the mill, has even stated the project is dead. Join us in supporting massive local protests, and calling upon Australia's Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to not extend the environmental approval process, and for the several European pulp interests to steer clear of funding the project or risk years of protest and conflict. Let's join together with local protests and ensure the Gunns pulp mill proposal is permanently withdrawn from consideration.
Take action now, #10;http://www.climateark.org/blog/2008/08/alert_final_push_needed_to_sto.asp">Discuss this alert.
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark (www.climateark.org),
and Forest Protection Portal (forests.org),
Originally published at http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_tasmania_climate
30 August 2008
See also: Wielangta Forest is about to be logged to make paper in Japan.
Is Garrett a dud? CSIRO pulp mill report on Gunns and other disappointments
(pulp mill effluent image on front page is from http://www.surfrider.org/srui.aspx?uiq=a-z/pulp_mills)
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