HOBART, Tasmania — In news that surprises no-one, a coalition of formerly ‘moderate’ green groups have renounced their apparent prior support for native forestry. Under the Labor-Green Tasmanian Forest Agreement, signatories such as the Wilderness Society  agreed to “an ongoing, vibrant forestry industry in Tasmania based on native forests”. …”Time and again, support has been pledged by Green activists for this industry or that, only to later be withdrawn for any number of reasons,” Minister Abetz said. …”Recent attempts by the Greens to force Federal Labor to drop the existing accreditation for Regional Forest Agreements in exchange for their support of Labor legislation in the Senate should send a chill down the spine of all forestry workers. “It is clear that the Federal Labor Government is pandering to the Greens in a bid to win seats on the mainland. …”We make no apologies for backing the State’s sustainable and job-rich timber industry.

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