Work on options for Tasmania’s forestry industryFriday 20 May 2011 Both sides of Tasmania’s forest peace talks welcomed the announcement that Forestry Tasmania would start modelling options for the sector's future. But industry and environmental organisations were also united on the need for an immediate federal government intervention to help the sector.Forestry Tasmania will test the impact of scenarios that include the environmental groups' push to conserve more than 500,000 hectares of forest as well as industry's proposal that more than 450,000 cubic metres of available resource was needed for a viable industry. Industry and environmental groups said that they were deeply concerned that the announcement was the first action since independent facilitator Bill Kelty handed his interim report to the state and federal governments nearly two months ago. Mr Kelty said that Forestry Tasmania had been officially provided with the modelling work from both sides of the talks and that the $100,000 modelling had to be completed by next month. It would be supervised by an independent team led by Southern Cross University Professor Jerry Vanclay. |
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