What’s $2million between friendsFriday 25 Feb 2022
It’s a collusion which appears to have informed many baffling government decisions on forestry, not least of all the disastrous announcement in 2019 to end Victoria’s native forest industry, and when the dots are connected, at the centre of it all is the Great Forest National Park (GFNP) campaign. The GFNP campaign was orchestrated by activist organisation MyEnvironment and at least one academic from the Australian National University’s Fenner School prior to the 2014 State election. It was the culmination of a growing anti-forestry movement stirred up after the 2009 Black Saturday fires. Timber harvesting was falsely blamed as a key cause for the disaster (ignoring the massive fuel build up and the weather conditions of the time) and the anti-forestry lobby was incensed timber harvesting should continue afterwards. Leading the charge was MyEnvironment which in 2012 took VicForests to the Supreme Court to halt timber harvesting in forest near Toolangi. It failed and was court ordered to pay AU$1.2m in costs. The costs have not been paid and have attracted interest which puts the total figure at around AU$2m. More >> Source: Forest & Wood Communities Australia | ||
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