19/12/2024
Please read this complete article on the financial losses made by the logging industry and how tax payers and koala are paying the price!
KOALA CATCH UP AS CHRISTMAS LOOMS – PRIME TIME FOR NSW GOVERNMENT’S ONGOING PROMISES OF KOALA EXTINCTION.
Where to start…Koala Crisis will make this news alert as brief as possible so you’re not drowned.
A Freedom of Information request by the ABC, forced Forestry Corporation NSW to reveal its Annual Report showing a loss of $29 million on its hardwood operations for 2023/2024. This is double the loss of the previous year.
This huge loss is subsidised by the taxpayer. In other words, you are being taxed by the government to pay for the destruction of one of our critical life support systems.
According to the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) this loss equates to a loss of over $3000 for each hectare logged.
Over the last four years the Forestry Corporation has lost over $70 million logging native forests, been fined over $1.5 million for violating provisions of the forestry approval (which are extremely weak ) and continues to wreak havoc on our native forests and all forest species particularly the Koala and Greater Gliders.
Backing up concern over this significant loss, it was extraordinary to read the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) report indicating the NSW Forestry Corporation was not even “ covering the costs of cutting down trees, delivering them to mills.”
“ In addition to timber products, native forests provide habitat for wildlife including threatened species. They provide water, environmental benefits. Forests store carbon which helps reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to mitigate climate change. “
And just to ensure no one thinks that either the financial losses OR the criticism from IPART will make one shred of difference to the NSW Premier or his appalling environment minister Penny Sharpe, ex Four Corners journalist Stephen Long, now senior fellow at the Australia Institute published an article in The Politics detailed the latest NSW government madness.
He wrote: “Forests would effectively be sold to fund future fossil-fuel emissions – the source of climate change and the biggest threat to forests’ survival.
The quid pro quo for safeguarding native forests from the logging machines would be monetising the carbon.”
As the Premier continues to tease the public with the possibility of ending native forest logging, the real game is setting up the forests as offsets for carbon emissions by corporations, developers at the state, national and international level.
Stephen Long continues: “And despite the lofty claims about ending native forest logging, ( by the NSW government) it’s even possible the carbon credits scheme could open up scope to extract timber from previously sacrosanct national parks
The plan goes by the innocuous-sounding title of “Improved Native Forest Management in Multiple-use Public Forests”. It’s being developed by the NSW government, but it could apply to all states where logging in native forests on public land is yet to be banned: NSW, Queensland and Tasmania.”
Friends, sufficient to say that if this insane carbon credits scheme is approved at the state and federal level, you can kiss goodbye the native forests and national parks.
NSW and the Federal governments are in the hands of politicians led by Minns and Albanese, two men who should be charged with crimes against nature. Government leaders who DO NOT RECOGNISE THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES WE ARE FACING – NATIONALLY, REGIONALLY, LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY SHOULD NOT BE IN OFFICE.
AUSTRALIA IS RAPIDLY BECOMING A FOURTH WORLD COUNTRY RUN BY IGNORAMUSES – ( defined as “ a way to comment on a person’s ignorance and stupidity.)
Don’t be fooled by ANY propaganda coming out of the NSW and/or Federal government. Stand by for more crap over the silly season, the best time for the worst government decisions when no one is noticing.
Wishing us all a peaceful Christmas and a fantastic burst of energy in the New Year because we're gonna need it.
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