Three Greens MPs to visit Eden Chipmill
What: Greens MPs Sue Pennicuik (Vic), Lee Rhiannon (NSW) and Deb Foskey (ACT) visit Eden Chipmill and the South East forests area.
When: Monday 1 September 2008
Where: Eden Chipmill at 11.30am, Gnupa area logged site at 2pm
Greens MPs from Victoria, NSW and the ACT will converge on South East NSW to step up the Greens campaign to end the logging of native forests.
The MPs will:
· meet with local campaigners and Greens activists
· tour the Eden Chipmill
· visit a recently logged area of native forest at Gnupa.
Victorian Greens MP Sue Pennicuik said, “Greens MPs have crossed jurisdictional borders to plan how we can best use our combined energies to step up the campaign to stop the logging of our native forests.
“With climate change closing in, the logging of native forests and associated industry is an issue not just for Eden but for the planet.
NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon said, “One of the most significant actions we can take is to cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions is to stop native forest logging.
“Our precious forests are of far greater value to us as a carbon bank than as a shipload of woodchip or a pile of ashes.”
Dr Deb Foskey MLA in the ACT Parliament said, “Native forests should not be felled for woodchips, electricity generation or to drive the profits of overseas companies.
“Along with the threats posed by logging to climate change comes the immediate devastation to our natural environment, threats to flora and fauna and destruction of water supplies,” Dr Foskey said.
Additional media release to be issued on day of the Eden chipmill visit.
For more information:
Lee Rhiannon - 9230 3551, 0427 861 568
Sue Pennicuik - 0407 000 270
Deb Foskey - 0413 223 585
