Senator Eric Abetz

“The Greens anti-forestry policy announced yesterday will devastate regional communities, social  networks, jobs and families in a clear felling of a vital Tasmanian Sector,” Senator Eric Abetz said today.

Mr McKim’s failure to condemn the hijacking of trucks and sabotage as witnessed in Triabunna together with Mr Burling as his running mate in Franklin highlights how the Greens deliberately create division and then feed off it for purely partisan purposes.

“To think you can get more resource by limiting every aspect of forestry is laughable magic pudding economics yet it is put out there as though it is serious policy,” Senator Abetz a former forestry minister said.

The document is a 41 page blueprint on how to destroy people’s lives and wreck the environment.

Make no mistake, forestry is the only sector that has a positive effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Wood products are genuinely renewable and replace non-renewable products such as plastic, concrete, steel and aluminium that leave huge carbon footprints.

So the Green policy will actually hurt the environment but they are blinded by their zealotory and ideological opposition to all things forestry despite the overwhelming scientific evidence.

The Greens need to explain how paper will be produced without “industrial wood chipping” – whatever that may mean. Is paper to be produced in cottages? If people want newspapers, toilet paper, tissues, writing paper, and the like at a reasonable price we will need woodchipping and paper makers.

The Greens 41 pages of spin lacks the scientific, social or economic substance to be treated seriously.

But it falls into the same category as giving Martin Bryant the vote and their drugs policy.

“The fairies may be happy but the fair minded will be horrified” Senator Abetz said.