Without the mill there can be no deal
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Lara Giddings has repeatedly made it quite clear – the forest deal was all about getting the pulp mill up.
She is now desperately trying to back away from that commitment in order to stitch up a political deal which will appease the Greens.
Tasmania needs the pulp mill.
Without the mill there should be no deal.
Giddings statements:
LG to ENGOs "You'll get the trees if you agree to a pulp mill" 4/3/11
“For Agreement to be reached on putting any further trees into HCV reserves, there has to be the pulp mill as part of it" LG 24/3/11
"In the good times where it was first mentioned, it [the pulp mill] was the icing on the cake. Now, financially as a State and as a Government we need the pulp mill to happen. It is the cake now." LG 4/3/11
From day one, the reason the industry went to the table was that the pulp mill was a part of it and the statement-of-principles process includes a pulp mill in it. The pulp mill is an important part of those negotiations. 28/3/12
