Press Release
18th May 2007
Huon Valley Environment Centre

Protest peels back mill's clean green veneer

Members of the Huon Valley community have gathered at the launch of Malaysian logging giant, Ta Ann's, veneer mill to highlight escalating threats to high conservation value forests.

"This mill is not sustainable,"  said Huon Valley Environment Centre spokesperson Will Mooney. "Priceless wilderness and high-conservation-value forests in areas such as the Lower Weld Valley face heightened destruction once this plant is switched on."

"Ta Ann is a billion dollar foreign logging company with a poor environmental record of logging rainforests in Sarawak.  Now, with grants from the Federal Government, Australian tax payers have helped line the pockets of these foreign logging millionaires."

"Tasmanians need a guarantee that pristine wilderness forests that provide us with clean air, pure water and priceless carbon storage, will not be destroyed to profit a new cadre of foreign logging millionaires."

Contact: Will Mooney 0429 180 343