Greens Candidate supports Chipmill Protest

 

 

 

The Greens candidate for Bega, Ms Harriett Swift has given her support to protests at the Eden woodchip mill this week.

Ms Swift says that without direct action of this kind, Governments and the woodchipping industry will continue to ignore public opinion as they have done for the last 40 years.

She says that with other avenues of protest being legislated away and with a succession of both Labor and the coalition Governments defying the wishes of the overwhelming majority of voters, environmentalists have been left with no other option but to risk their safety and possible arrest to stand up for the forests.

Far from being criminals these protesters are standing up for the wishes of a majority of Australians and working to preserve our national heritage forests for future generations by opposing subsidised unsustainable woodchip industry.

While the industry in other parts of Australia is recognising that the time has come to move to a plantation based industry, the Eden chipmill and its political supporters have their heads firmly in the sand.

"The fact that NSW taxpayers are bankrolling this industry to the tune of about $15million a year adds insult to injury."

"There must be a limit to how much longer voters will tolerate this," she says.

18 January 2011

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