Kim Booth MP
Greens Forestry Spokesperson
The Tasmanian Greens said the Greens? proposal for a diversified timber processing and training centre at Scottsdale was a perfect fit for the economic transition aims espoused under the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, and should be part of the Kelty-West process.
Greens Forestry spokesperson Kim Booth MP said that the proposal was all about helping to develop a new forest industry with a focus on high-value products which can truly compete on global markets, underpinned by Forest Stewardship Council certification.
Mr Booth said that the Greens released the proposal in 2008 as a real job creating opportunity to counter job losses resulting from the closure of the two Gunns Scottsdale softwood sawmills.
?This proposal is about more jobs with less logs,? Mr Booth.
?Far from trying to ?shut-down? the timber industry, the Greens are focused on helping transform Tasmania?s timber industry into a globally-competitive market innovator, not just a bulk commodity exporter.?
?The Labor and Liberal parties need to end this fallacy that all our problems will be solved by some kind of industrial white knight from the 19th Century.?
?They are using the pulp mill as a political wedge, when they should be supporting real timber jobs generated by a high-value, low-volume downstream processing industry.?
?With the pulp mill now dead and buried, it?s time for those who?ve been trying to keep Tasmania trapped in a cargo-cult mentality to wake up and start helping to get the forest industry transition underway.?
March 13, 2012
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