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 WATER SOS TASMANIA Access to Clean Fresh Uncontaminated Water is a fundamental right which continues to be deliberately, systematically and maliciously violated as the term "World's Best Practice" is used to describe the destruction of water catchments, diversity, complexity and relative stability of forests and the flora and fauna which exists both competitively and co-operatively in the unexploited or modified Natural World. SEE WATER TASMANIA for more..... |
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This state is neither clean nor green - in fact Tasmania
has the highest incidence of cancer in a country, Australia, that has
one of the highest incidences of cancer in the world.
That's right folks - you're living in one of the most cancerous societies on earth. MORE FROM A TYPICAL TASMANIAN CONSUMER... @ TASMANIAN TIMES * Chemical spray 'ruined' sea-change dream 30/09/04 MICHELLE and Howard Carpenter moved to Tasmania 18 months ago to pursue a "clean, green" dream of an organic hobby farm and healthy lifestyle. Today, their dreams - and their health - are in tatters. Instead they have become national symbols of what some say is the "dirty" reality of forest industry practices..... THE AUSTRALIAN... * Senator slams aerial spraying 29/09/04 "I think it's a disgrace what's been allowed to go on and I have continued to say that," he told ABC Radio.... it was unfair for Tasmanians to "live in fear of what they are drinking".... NEWS.COM.AU... * Gunns' spraying 'contaminated' drinking water 28/09/04 Ms Putt asked Premier Paul Lennon .... "Are you further aware that when the representative of Gunns Limited was informed, his response yesterday was to drive around to Mr and Mrs Carpenter's house and give them two bottles of spring water and say he would be back in touch today?"...... ABC NEWS ONLINE... Couple 'knocked for six' by chemical ....lured by the State's "clean, green" reputation. HERALD SUN... * Tasmania: name your poison Sunday 26 September 2004 SUNDAY - CHANNEL NINE TV TRANSCRIPT OF THE EXPOSURE OF DISGUSTING & CRIMINAL POLITICAL CONDUCT IN TASMANIA Video copies of the program should be available for sale at TV Archives in Sydney - 02 9906 9999 / international +61 2 9906 9999 * Community outrage over Launceston's water supply and obscene levels of plantation conversion Having watched the 'Sunday' Program's expose of the rapidly unfolding forestry and water health disaster in Tasmania, participants in the Wilderness Society's Launceston Water Catchment Tour were outraged by what they saw today. “People here can’t drink the water anymore, we are having to buy rainwater tanks, all the small creeks that we once used are either drying up or polluted. We have pulled dead poisoned animals out of the water within cooee of our water intakes” said Mr Rousell. THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY • Poisoned by the heartless .....I do not agree with all the Greens policies but if the Greens can put a stop to this madness the poisoning of people, wildlife, land, air and water then the Greens get my vote..... THE BORDER MAIL... * Toxin tests under wraps 26 September 2004 THE State Government is withholding results of a testing program for highly toxic chemicals in Tasmanian trout and eels. Trout and eels statewide were tested for man-made PCB chemicals which have been shown to harm humans and animals. PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) were detected in local fish but attempts by the Sunday Tasmanian to have the results released last week were refused by the Tasmanian Government. The Government has been sitting on the preliminary results of the testing program for more than three years....... SUNDAY TASMANIAN... * TASMANIA'S "CLEAN GREEN IMAGE" HAS A LONG HISTORY HERE... * SUPER ARROGANT KONS DENIES TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD ACT ON POISONED WATER MORE ON TASMANIA'S POISONED WATER WITH ARROGANCE... * THERE'S POISON IN YOUR DRINKING WATER, BUT HEY..... IT WON'T HARM YOU! HERE... |