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Legal advice: Gunns cannot start pulp mill construction
Contrary to the assurance to Gunns from Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the Greens have released legal advice that the construction of Gunns' pulp mill cannot begin before all issues affecting threatened and migratory species have been assessed.
This, in turn, requires the hydrodynamic modelling of mill effluent pouring into Bass Strait to be completed.
Tasmania Condemned To Two More Years Of Pulp Mill Uncertainty
Federal Minister Peter Garrett’s decision to effectively give Gunn’s an extension of two more years to do the hydro dynamic modelling in Bass Strait is a body blow to Tasmanians and puts the pulp mill squarely on the 2010 federal election agenda, Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne said today.
“It has been obvious from day one that a chlorine dioxide bleaching pulp mill would pollute Bass Strait and that tertiary treatment would be required,” Senator Milne said. “Gunn’s has had since 2004 to prove otherwise but has failed to do so.”
Potential Pulp Mill funders warned of next cost blow-out: tertiary treatment
Australian Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, today used a Matter of Public Importance debate in the Senate to call once again for the release of the Herzfeld Report into the proposed Gunns Pulp Mill's likely pollution impacts and the need for tertiary treatment of its waste.

