Gunns’ proposed Tasmania pulp mill seeks Austrian and Finnish ECA support

(The Wilderness Society, Hobart, 17 September 2010) Gunns Ltd, Australia’s largest logging company, wants to build a polluting pulp mill in Tasmania. Whilst Gunns has stated publicly the mill will be 100% plantation fed from startup, they have a wood supply deal with Forestry Tasmania for at least 1 million tones of native forest wood every single year for the next 20 years! Each day Gunns will dump 64,000 tonnes of toxic pollution into Bass Strait. The State government used a corrupted assessment process to approve the mill. So far over 20 leading banks and paper companies have refused to fund the project and funding has not been secured.