Add a comment about what you’ve done.
If you have done something to help get logging stopped in Melbourne’s catchments, please tell us by leaving a message below.
Perhaps you’ve:
- publicised what products are made from the forested catchments;
- met with an MP;
- made a phonecall;
- put up a poste;
- written to your MP or local councillor;
- received a response to a lette;
- or something else.
Please tell us! And thanks for your support and help.
admin @ February 6, 2008
I have sent an email to all the relevant state MP’s, FSC officials, Australian Paper and DSE. I just received a response from Australian Paper reminding me that they do not harvest thier own wood supply but purchase it from ’sustainably managed sources’ and that they ‘rely on the expertise of these suppliers to supply from appropriate sources’.
They went on to say that while they recognise that young regrowth is more taxing on water than mature forests, the difference is minimal and that piping infrastructure from these areas is limited and therefore any gains in water cannot be currently utilised.
They also mentioned that they believe that more effective water savings can be made from responsible water saving strategies like rainwater tanks (yeah thanks for your concern guys!!).
Anyway the letter was generally insulting and I will be responding but I have to get up to date with some of what they mentioned like the piping infrastructure issue or the ammount of water saved, so if anyone has any expertise or knowledge in this area let me know.
Letter to the Editor - Bayside Leader / 19 December - not yet published…
I commend Bayside Council’s unanimous passage this week of a motion that seeks to influence the State Government and end logging in Melbourne’s Water Catchments. Logging reduces stream flows from the catchments and also degrades drinking water quality. It takes 150 years for water yields to return to their pre-logged status. Individuals can be fined $2000 for merely walking into a “protected” catchment while bulldozers are given free rein. The motion was supported by a petition signed by over 300 Bayside residents. We are all too aware that the archaic practise of logging in water catchments makes no sense while our climate changes, Bayside gardens wilt, and local residents are driven to spend large sums on water tanks and graywater systems. I encourage Bayside residents to contact their State Government representatives and demand that logging in our water catchments is immediately stopped before further damage is allowed.
Coni Forcey
Co-President Bayside Climate Change Action Group
23 Nelson St
Sandringham
I produced a unique short activist film about the logging and woodchip of Melbourne’s catchment forest. The Demon in Democracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24XnEswKnBQ
Actively yours
PCD
We have produced a feature article on ENVI paper and have quoted this website.
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Australia’s first carbon neutral paper includes includes pulp from Australia’s native forests, including the worlds most carbon dense forests and water catchments.
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http://www.bindarri.com.au/envi-carbon-neutral-paper/
We have produced a feature article on ENVI paper and have quoted MWCM.
go greenwash with ENVI
Australia’s first carbon neutral paper includes includes pulp from Australia’s native forests, including the worlds most carbon dense forests and water catchments.
ENVI Paper
http://www.bindarri.com.au/envi-carbon-neutral-paper/