Gunns boss' approvals Hubris: - Greg L'Estrange show first signs of stress as he attacks Richard Flanagan in Hobart Mercury........and ............Sue Neales blows the whistle on Gunns Native Forest logging plans and Wilderness Society's deceit.

........"While Gunns and Mr Burke have guaranteed the pulp mill will only use plantation timber, what will be the source of the 500,000 tonnes of woodchips annually needed to fuel the wood-fired power station on site? Why was Mr L'Estrange in Japan last week negotiating the price of native forest woodchip exports with Japanese pulp and paper companies if Gunns intends to exit all native forest logging and woodchipping?....... Read More Here
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Graeme Wells, School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania on compensation for Gunns wood supply contracts - Here.
............See Gunns Native Forest Wood supply agreement with the Tasmanian Government Here and Heresky and the very handy Deed of Variation agreed to in December 2008 by The Tasmanian Government and Gunns to change the clauses in the wood supply agreements which required Gunns to commence the pulp mill on a certain date. These dates were changed because Gunns had failed to attract a financier and get the pulp mill started.

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At this delicate stage of the Gunns Pulp Mill saga, Hobart, home to Tasmania's greatest concentration of pulp mill opponents will be in no mood to pick up Hobart Mercury and cop a lecture from Greg L'Estrange the $1Million dollar chief (will make an extra $1Million if the Tamar Valley pulp mill is built) of Gunns - Austrlalia's most reviled logging company. Nor will the readers of Tasmania's greenest tinged newspaper take kindly to the Gunns boss unloading on one of Hobart and Tasmanias most popular and revered citizens Richard Flanagan. For a hubristic Greg L'Estrange with federal approvals now in pocket to gloat that his logging company is still determined to impose their project on a state that clearly does not want it will only further enrage already angry pulp mill opponents. L'Estrange's ill advised opinion piece is the slick CEO's first real PR faux pas since he took over from John Gay. Will we now see a more aggressive and intolerant Gunns boss with his much wanted pulp mill approvals in hand?

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Sue Neales serves it up to the "deceitful" Wilderness Society and asks the hard questions about the pulp mill - Here

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