The $50 million redevelopment of a remote Northern Territory port is almost complete.
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The $50 million redevelopment of a remote Northern Territory port is almost complete.
Topics: rural, environment, forestry, mining-rural, sea-transport, darwin-0800
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Traditional Owners from the Northern Territory's Gove Peninsula are hoping to expand their forestry industry, to create new jobs and income for locals.
Topics: rural, mining-rural, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, forestry, katherine-0850
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Scores of regional forestry jobs under threat
Topics: forestry, unemployment, programs-and-initiatives, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444, lismore-2480, grafton-2460
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The Senate is to probe the Federal Government's bid to delist part of the World Heritage Area.
The Government wants to remove about 74,000 hectares added last year under the Tasmanian Forest Agreement.
The inquiry will look at how the Government went about re-evaluating the area and the implications delisting could have on the area's World Heritage status.
Topics: national-parks, federal---state-issues, forests, forestry, tas
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Tasmanian Greens MP, Kim Booth, is calling for investment in new timber products made from plantation-grown hardwoods.
Topics: agricultural-policy, forestry, timber, launceston-7250
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The Tasmanian Government has rejected accusations it showed pulp mill enabling legislation to the receivers of collapsed timber company Gunns.
Prominent anti-pulp mill campaigner Geoffrey Cousins claims the Government sought KordaMentha's approval for the draft legislation before it was tabled in parliament last month.
The legislation to strengthen the mill permits was passed by both houses of parliament.
The Deputy Premier, Bryan Green, says the allegations are untrue and to suggest there was corruption is disgraceful.
Topics: timber, states-and-territories, environment, forests, forestry, bell-bay-7253
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Deal signed with a Japanese company to export woodchips from the Tiwi Islands.
Topics: rural, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, forestry, tiwi-0810, darwin-0800, japan
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A union is warning 250 jobs at Forestry Tasmania will be axed if the Liberal party wins government.
Opposition Leader Will Hodgman wants to slash $95 million from the budget of the troubled state-owned business.
It is a key plank in the Opposition's alternative budget, accounting for around one-fifth of their total savings.
Topics: forestry, government-and-politics, hobart-7000
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The Opposition leader claims the Commonwealth will continue funding positions created under the forest peace deal, even if it is scrapped under a State Liberal Government.
Topics: forestry, government-and-politics, industrial-relations, hobart-7000
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Mechanical harvesters have moved into the Forestry Corporation's pine plantations, burnt during last month's Minnimbah fire near Carabost.
Topics: bushfire, forestry, regional, carabost-2650, wagga-wagga-2650
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The Greens believe Tasmania's hardwood plantation estate would be worth more money and jobs if the trees were not used to feed a pulp mill.
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The forestry workers' union says renewed confidence in Tasmania's industry is being undermined by a bid to delist World Heritage areas.
Topics: forestry, forests, timber, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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Tasmanian state-owned company TasPorts has bought the Gunns woodchip loading facility at the Burnie port from the company's receivers KordaMentha.
Topics: rural, forestry, burnie-7320
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Environmentalists are accusing the Federal Government of moving to excise some of Tasmania's most contested forests from the Wilderness World Heritage Area.
The Coalition Government has formally asked the World Heritage Committee to delist 74,000 hectares of forest from the area, which was extended under the forest peal deal by 170,000 ha.
The Environment Minister has defended the move to delist areas he has described as degraded.
But environmentalists say the Government wants to allow loggers to return to forests at the centre of decades of conflict.
Topics: timber, federal---state-issues, forestry, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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The forest industry has welcomed Tasport's acquisition of Gunns woodchip loading facilities at Burnie Port.
The facility was shut down when Gunns pulled out of native logging in 2010.
Since then, north-west saw millers like Glenn Britton have been relying on Federal Government subsidies to cart chips to Bell Bay.
Mr Britton says renewed access will significantly improve 30 per cent of his business.
Topics: forestry, government-and-politics, urban-development-and-planning, regional-development, burnie-7320
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SE Fibre Exports (SEFE) is a company with an uncertain future.
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The Tasmanian Greens have described the Federal Government's bid to strip thousands of hectares of forest from the state's World Heritage area as "extremist".
About 170,000 hectares were added last year as part of the forest peace deal but the Coalition Government has asked the World Heritage Committee to delist 74,000 thousand hectares, or nearly half that.
The Greens leader Nick McKim says if the move is successful it would put the historic agreement between environmentalists and the Tasmanian timber industry at risk.
Topics: forestry, forests, federal-government, government-and-politics, environment, rural, tas
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The Tasmanian Conservation Trust has declared its Supreme Court challenge to the validity of the pulp mill's permits is now "dead in the water".
The Upper House has backed the Government's bill which is designed to shore up the controversial Tamar Valley mill.
Gunns' receiver Kordamentha requested the legislation to make the project more attractive to potential buyers but it's accepting bids until the end of March, after the election.
Topics: states-and-territories, timber, forestry, forests, bell-bay-7253
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Upper House MLC Paul Harriss denies his latest attempt to kill off the forest peace deal was first approved by the Liberal Party.
Mr Harriss says the participation of the Wilderness Society in yesterday's anti-pulp mill protest outside Parliament raises questions about the integrity of the deal.
He will today move that the Upper House review the deal's enacting legislation, on the grounds it has not ended conflict in the forestry sector.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, timber, states-and-territories, forests, forestry, tas, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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Former blue gum plantations in the Esperance region could be returned to traditional agriculture within two years.
Topics: tree, forestry, agricultural-machinery, agricultural-crops, esperance-6450
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An Indian sandalwood company says it's progressing well with plans to buy more land in the Douglas Daly region, south of Darwin.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, forestry, beef-cattle, darwin-0800
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The Tasmanian Government has moved to give proponents of a Tamar Valley pulp mill more time to commence substantial work.
It allows the mill's permits to be sold and extends their shelf life from four to 10 years, meaning any potential permit holder would have until 2017 to commence substantial work.
Greens leader Nick McKim says it effectively condemns Tasmanians to 10 more years of uncertainty and strips away the right to take legal action.
Topics: timber, states-and-territories, forests, forestry, bell-bay-7253
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Farmers and the Forestry Corporation of NSW are counting the cost of a fire that continues to burn in dense forest in southern NSW.
Topics: sheep-production, fires, forestry, humula-2652
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Labor has put a pulp mill at the front of its 2014 Tasmanian election campaign, when the Premier Lara Giddings set the date.
Topics: agribusiness, forestry, biotechnology-industry, timber, elections, launceston-7250
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The Federal Government has announced more than $20 million in innovation funding Australia wide.
Topics: vegetables, fishing-aquaculture, forestry, burnie-7320
