South Sister updates

summaries & links ...

[Diary of Events provides a record of events from 21 February 2005 when Forestry Tasmania moved road making machinery up to South Sister prior to logging.]

General environmental articles

This is a new section devoted to random articles on the environment from around the world, mainly from The Independent.

Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air, a book by David J.C. MacKay available for downloading from his website
2009/12/19 - Johann Hari: The truths Copenhagen ignored
- Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure
- Copenhagen negotiators bicker and filibuster while the biosphere burns
2009/12/11 - Johann Hari: Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud
2009/11/18 - Global temperatures will rise 6C by end of century, say scientists
2009/11/16 - Two-year-olds at risk from 'gender-bending' chemicals, report says
2009/10/25 - Who says it's green to burn woodchips?
2009/10/04 - Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk

2010/02/22 - ABC: Fears timber toxins could be poisoning town
Tasmanian Times: Is all Tasmania poisoned?

2010/01/30 - The Australian: Gunns settles with last pulp mill opponents

2009/11/03 - The Independent: Lead-mining: the ugly truth about Mount Isa

2009/08/31 - Tasmanian Times: Accounting for Dummies ... A look at Forestry Tasmania

2009/08/27 - Tasmanian Times: 25 Tasmanians Arrested Outside Parliament House

2009/08/19 - The Australian: Logs, not tourists, the driving force for Tas road

2009/05/11 - The Australian: Gunns' approval for mill 'invalid'

2009/05/04 - The Australian: Bugs to listen in on wildlife's most wanted

2009/04/10 - The Age: Legal win for Gunns in fight for Tassie mill

2009/03/16 - Gunns reaches settlement with Wilderness Society

2008/11/20 - The Australian: Pulping the truth (aka 'The chooks coming home to roost')

2008/09/19 - BBC: New species from Australia's reefs - (a series of images)

2008/08/29 - The Australian: Gunns nearly out of ammo on Tasmanian pulp mill

2008/08/23 - The Australian: Gunns to recast plans for pulp mill

2008/07/08 - The Australian: Hybrids will destroy our wildlife

2008/05/24 - The Mercury: Brown loses logging battle

2008/05/17 - The Australian: Gunns hit with ban on use of herbicide

2008/05/02 - The Australian: Challenge against Gunns pulp mill gets go-ahead

2008/03/31 - The Australian: Hope of cure for dying Tasmanian devils

2008/03/14 - Tasmanian Times: RPDC: Anniversary of a serial killing

2008/03/04 - Celsias: Tasmania's Forests: Lies, Lies and More Lies
Tasmanian Times: Mill: project on hold ... ?

2008/02/04 - ABC News: More court action over pulp mill
The Mercury: Gunns block lawyers' bid to stop mill

2008/01/29 - The Australian: Pulp mill 'will cost Tasmania $300m'
The report by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research(.pdf file, 1.14MB)