With the current community focus firmly on climate change and renewable energy comes reports that the NSW Government is under cover of stealth and as quickly as possible before the next election, outrageously proposing to change the rules to allow an enormous 180-fold increase in intensification of clear fell logging within the North Coast area, under the guise of using wood as a so called renewable carbon neutral energy source.
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These logs are to be either pelletised and burned in proposed new wood fired power stations or destined for lucrative overseas markets, both of which uses will further intensify logging with severe impact on our forests in all manner of ways.
We may as well burn coal!
We are facing an increasingly warming planet and need to move rapidly to carbon free renewable energy sources which are now so readily available, becoming much cheaper and growing in popularity for all ethically thinking people.
What utter madness this is!