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Australia: End to logging planned
Source: Posted: 10-03-2006 at 03:00:15
| Courier-Mail: QUEENSLAND'S $2.7 billion-a-year timber industry has put a plan to the State Government to end logging in native forests and increase plantations by 50 per cent. The plan's target is to make Queensland the largest timber-producing state. Industry also wants the Government to back emissions trading so major polluters such as electricity producers and smelters would buy and plant out land as a trade-off to the global-warming carbon they emit into the atmosphere. Industry ... |
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