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Forests and Global Warming Forests in the furnace What is woodchipping? Activists Corner HOME FACTS AND FIGURES TRUCK COUNTS	►SERCA and JATAN ask Nippon Paper to stop buying native forest woodchips from the Eden chipmill ► New report on $$ benefits of ending native forest logging in NSW ►Forest Carbon in NSW ► Senate Standing Committee on the Environment and Communications Submission from the South East Region Conservation Alliance (SERCA) ►NSW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL: Inquiry into the long term sustainability and future of the timber and forest products industry ►CHIPMILL DA to BVSC for EXPANDED MILL ► ANWE records near record profit ►CHIPMILL STORM DAMAGE ►CHIPMILL GETS A NEW OWNER ►JOIN THE 'LOG OFF' CAMPAIGN ►SUBMISSION ON THE PROPOSED DE-LISTING OF SOUTHERN BROWN BANDICOOT ►SEFE CANCELS CONTRACT WITH VICFORESTS ►BEGA VALLEY SHIRE COUNCIL ►IT'S OFFICIAL: 14 YEARS OF FOREST FAILURE ►SUBSIDIES FOR NATIVE FOREST LOGGING ► "ONE STOP CHOP" HOW REGIONAL FOREST AGREEMENTS STREAMLINE FOREST DESTRUCTION What's New Archive
SERCA and JATAN are asking Nippon Paper to stop buying native forest woodchips from the Eden chipmill Since Nippon Paper has abandonned its white paper interest in Opal Paper in Victoria we are asking it to stop buying native forest woodchips from Eden chipmill, the mill that it once owned. English version Japanese version
New report on $$ benefits of ending native forest logging in NSW report by Blueprint Institute, a conservative think tank with strong Liberal Party connections examines the benefits of ending native forest logging in NSW. While it uses north coast forests as a case study, with carbon emissions of 0.45M tonnes per year, it identifies emission for the South Coast of 0.95M tonnes, more than twice as much, for a significantly smaller area. It concludes that there would be a net benefit of $260.1 million in ceasing logging immediately, ►NCC response ►Download report
NSW FOREST CARBON: An Effective Climate Change Solution. Authored by Dr Jennifer Sanger, The Tree Projects. © The Tree Projects. January 2023 ►
Senate Standing Committee on the Environment and Communications Submission from the South East Region Conservation Alliance (SERCA) Submission urging removal of native forest biomass eligibility as renewable energy. August 2022
NSW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL: Inquiry into the long term sustainability and future of the timber and forest products industry, commenced 25 March 2021. Chipstop submission Committee contact and information Report Government response
CHIPMILL DA to BVSC for EXPANDED MILL In March 2020, ANWE lodged a Development Application for an expanded mill to process briquettes, pallets, following the allocation of the Eden Sawlog Wood Supply Agreement to it. BVSC received 126 submissions from the public, all but one opposing the DA. Public submissions ANWE was asked to provide additional information on its DA
ANWE records near record profit Just 2 weeks after the Forestry Corporation CEO told State Parliament in 2019 that the "stumpage price" of woodchip (pulp) logs from the Southern Region is a record low of $3.72 a tonne, Eden chipmill owner, Allied Natural Wood Exports announced a near record profit of $10.6 million. clickk
CHIPMILL STORM DAMAGE On the night of 5 June 2016, World Environment Day, the chipmill jetty was struck by a massive wave which destroyed much of it. The images to right tell some of the story. The first response of the new managers was to seek financial assistance from taxpayers. More information http://www.edenmagnet.com.au/story/3954309/eden-chip-mill-storm-damage-a-disaster/

CHIPMILL GETS A NEW OWNER On 23 December 2015 Allied Natural Wood Exports (ANWE) became the owner of the Eden chipmill. While the new owners are 'tsalking the talk;, they are also committed to maintaining Wood Supply Agreements and woodchip export contracts to Nippon Paper until at least the end of 2018. · ASIC documents relating to ANWE · ANWE's website
THE "LOG OFF" ELECTION TRUCK At the start of its transformation into a serious propaganda machine, soon to tour marginal NSW electorates during the 2015 election campaign, spreading the message to stop logging and woodchipping native forests. more:
		SUBMISSION ON THE PROPOSED DE-LISTING OF SOUTHERN BROWN BANDICOOT The federal Government of the Southern Brown Bandicoot is under review and may be revoked. Chipstop submission
IT'S OFFICIAL: 14 YEARS OF FOREST FAILURE The NSW Government has admitted that its rules were logging native forests over the past 14 years have been a failure. It is rewriting the rules, but all the signs are that they will be even worse. Chipstop submission on the IFOA Discussion Paper Chipstop media statement on the IFOA Rewrite		BEGA VALLEY SHIRE COUNCIL BVSC has produced a draft Climate Change Strategy. Appendix Chipstop response
“ONE STOP CHOP; HOW REGIONAL FOREST AGREEMENTS STREAMLINE ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION” An expert national review of Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) has given a decisive thumbs down to the legal framework for native forest logging and woodchipping on the NSW far south coast. The report: “One Stop Chop; How Regional Forest Agreements Streamline Environmental Destruction” was released nationally on 31 August 2013 Media Statement Summary Report Full report ABC SE Report with EDO(Felicity Milliner) 1 Aug 2013. AFPA response by Ross "koalas overboard" Hampton, 2 Aug 2013		SUBSIDIES FOR NATIVE FOREST LOGGING. Have you ever wondered how much subsidy native forest logging gets from Commonwealth, State and Local Governments? Here's a start! click
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