A protest is currently underway (17th January 2011)at the Eden woodchipmill. A tripod has been erected and police are in attendance. Below is a statement from one of the protestors from South East Forest Rescue.
WOODCHIPPING AND NATIVE FOREST LOGGING – IT’S JUST NOT CRICKET
This year marks the first official International Year of the Forests. As part of a summer campaign to raise awareness of the state of play regarding native forests on the south coast, today South East Forest Rescue have disrupted access to the Eden woodchipmill on Edrom Road. There is a person sitting in a tripod twenty feet above the ground.
Youtube clip of the blockade
This peaceful action has taken place because the group state that deforestation is one of the biggest causes of climate change, Forests NSW are incurring a massive loss and the chipmill (South East Fibre Exports) and its mother company, Nippon Paper Group, has been accepting logs obtained illegally and despite repeated attempts and protestations to the government there has been no action.
"Recent audits have exposed illegal logging of rainforest, land registered on the National Estate, endangered ecological communities, a gazetted Aboriginal Place and rocky outcrops,'' said Lisa Stone, spokesperson for South East Forest Rescue. "We have proven systemic re-occurring breaches on the south coast that show a pattern of non-compliance to the law."
95% of wood taken from State native forests is now ending up at the chipmill. Bizarrely South East Fibre Exports want to burn native forests for electricity. Failing that SEFE has a plan to turn the woodchips into pellets and send them overseas to be burned to bypass the law.
“The protection of the forests of the south east is a global issue. We are calling for urgent steps to be taken to protect these irreplaceable ecosystems forever” said Ms Stone.
“This logging is unsustainable. Further this logging is incurring a massive loss of tax payer’s money to the State and the people of NSW,” said Ms Stone.
“We are calling for the end to native forest logging on public land. With what we know about the effects of climate change it is time the Commonwealth and State Governments stepped up to the crease,” said Ms Stone. “The time has come to enact the moratorium to end native forest logging for us and our children’s future.”
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Cool tripod, excellent work, hope you get some changes thru!
cool tripod, excellent work, hope you get some changes thru! x
Champion effort, loggers warned about their immature behaviour
Outcome -- 130 log trucks stopped. 1 arrest. 13 hour tripod sit ends peacefully. Loggers warned about their immature behaviour at activist campsite. Champion effort.
These products are made of paper....
how silly are you lot! the truck you stopped was a pine truck not hard wood!!! what amuses me the most with your pathetic protest is that you lot chopped down hard wood trees to make the tri pod shame that those 3 trees are now no longer living..... tell me do you enjoy your cigarets rolled in the cigarete papper and wipeing your a***ses on the toliet paper brought tonight at the supermarket maybe you hiprocrites need to remember what these products are made of paper.... get a life and a job.
Like a stuck industrialist playing with his wireless gadgets
infantile insults, disproportionate criticism, and feigned emotions... smells like a stuck industrialist playing with his wireless gadgets
Why do our supermarkets stock goods made by the destruction?
Thanks for pointing that out. Nippon Paper Group, which owns the woodchip mill makes a lot of things that we should boycott, including Kleenex and Scottie brands. Consumers should know which products are made with old growth trees so they can make informed decisions. The other question that comes to my mind is why do our supermarkets stock goods made by the destruction of our beautiful forests.
Kleenex and Scottie makers use plantation pulpwood
Since when did Nippon Paper buy Kimberley Clark? Check the list on the nippon web site soup for brains. Kleenex and Scottie makers use plantation pulpwood, not old growth. I shouldn't be surprised that you don't know old growth from your a***hole.
70% was native hardwood from east Gippsland
yep. we totes stopped softwood trucks. however, 70% of the trucks held up was native hardwood from east gippsland. and believe it or not buddy, you can purchase bogroll that is made from completely recycled materials and not from our beautiful backyards. idiot.
Get a life and a job without using paper
no i am not ! just a currently employed person who lives in eden and has to pay your unemployed benifits and deal with the bull you lot speak, stopped a 130 trucks did you realise that over 80 trucks were pine wood which is plantation timber ( a renewable source) also a soft word and not native to ausrtalia. also do you ever actually get the facts before you spruke off and by the way he is a she! as stated get a life and a job without useing paper goodluck d*******ds
Serf mentality, social envy and ecological incompetence
serf mentality, social envy, and ecological incompetence... obviously this one lost either face or money or both because some bossless activists did such a marvellous job
What most people are anti is logging old growth forests
Logging old growth forests is uncool. No one is protesting about paper. No one is anti paper. What most people are anti is logging old growth forests. I know, its complicated, concentrate!
Great work to all the protesters at Edrom Rd. You guys do a very difficult, unappreciated and important job for our community. It was great to see you in action the other day.
Protestors have so much free time, help out in Queensland!
Sad to see that while thousands of people are unable to work due to flooding in Queensland, another group of people choose not to work in order to take the choice away from others - not just those involved in the timber industry, but the Defence and THALES personnel operating from the Naval wharf, which had a ship waiting to be unloaded at the time.
If these protestors have so much free time to try and make a difference, we need a lot of hands up on this side of the border at the moment.
So are plantations on clearcut land!
This is ridiculous. The ones who are taking away choices from others are the stakeholders of an industry which could be remade so much less destructive if it wasn't for their sick grudge against those of us who volunteer in public crisis prevention rather than pursue a career in the commercial or government sector. Isn't there something to make paper from that doesn't take years to reproduce?
Harriet Swift, why did you change your name?
A question to Harriet Swift, why did you change your name by depole? is there any truth to the rumor that you were involed with a non enviromentally freindly activity which you accrued wealth? HIPOCRIT !!!!!!!!
Public servants and dole bludgers recognise taxpayers' support
Six arrests. Frank Sartor following through.
Harriett Swift seems to have been a political researcher and parliamentary secretary with tertiary qualifications most of her life.
What about you?
It is spelled hypocrite not HIPOCRIT.
And "Deed" Poll.
Oh, aren't we busy grubbing in the gutter. You'll get most of the dirt on yourself if you spend too much time down there.
No one can afford to slur another human being.
And how relevant is this to the issue of logging or the taxpayer subsidies that cover your jobs. At least public servants and dole bludgers recognise that taxpayers support them instead of pretending to create a product that decimates rather than improves the nation.
Prevent flooding by dealing with causes of climate change
Prevent flooding by dealing with things that cause climate change. Like logging and logging trucks.
When climate change renders us all of us extinct, how will it help that you tore up living carbon stores while cycles of flooding or burning accelerated??
Silly little protest that has become nothing but a "summer sham"
how silly are you you are going to blame the eden loggers for causing the floods in queensland, wake up were in nsw not qld and how dare you use such devastation in queensland as an excuse to glorify you silly little protest that has become nothing but a "summer sham"! you need to get your facts straight and stop glorifying yourselves because you look like idiots to all on the south coast, WAKE UP
Eden affects the entire planet, the entire planet affects Eden
You really don't understand global warming do you. Our planet is a closed system. The air you are inhaling now is the same air I am inhaling. It is one continuous layer, called the atmosphere. Anything I put into the air where I am, will end up where you are over time. You don't breathe different air. We only have one atmosphere and we all share it. It is the same with the water. If I dirty the water here, it will end up dirty where you are also. Air and water cycle around the planet. As trees grow they take in CO2 from the air. When the wood dies the CO2 is returned to the air. The increased levels of CO2 are causing global warming. Global warming is causing more storms of greater intensity. Flooding and droughts both increase with global warming, as does their intensity. What happens in Eden affects the entire planet, just as what happens elsewhere affects Eden. What do you think will happen to the oil that poured into the ocean in the Gulf oil spill. It will end up everywhere, including washing up on the beautiful beaches of Eden.
WIFE WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE INDUSTRY THAT SUPPORTS MY FAMILY
SO HOW DID THE PROTESTERS GET TO EDEN TO PROTEST>.... I WONDER DID THEY DRIVE THEIR IN CARS YES I THINK SO ARN'T THOSE CARS ARE POLLUTING THE ATMOSPHERE YOU ARE SO READY TO LECTURE ME ABOUT, ALSO WHAT ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION YOUR SO CALLED PROTESTERS ARE DONIG TO THE FOREST THERE CAMPING IN???? THEY ARE DESTROYING THE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE OF THAT ENVIROMENT. OH HANG ON THATS OK BECAUSE ITS ALL IN THE NAME OF SAVING THE PLANET SO THATS OK YEP THANKS I HAVE GOT IT WORKED OUT NOW. THANKS FOR THE INSIGHT AFTER ALL I AM ONLY A LOG TRUCK DRIVERS WIFE WITH NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE INDUSTRY THAT SUPPORTS MY FAMILY
Don't leave your camp site in a mess for locals to clean up
When you come to my home town to protest please dont leave your camp site in a mess for locals to clean up
Specks, logs, eyes
Does this one use chlorine bleach?
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