Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) the conditions of the Gunns Pulp Mill approval (EPBC 2007/3385) by the then Minister for the Environment, on 10 March 2011, which requires 'no wood sourced from native forests will be used by the Bell Bay pulp mill',

(ii) the Minister for the Environment (Mr Hunt) has confirmed the Government has asked the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's World Heritage Committee to delist 74 000 hectares of Tasmanian forest,

(iii) that with the support of the Liberal and Labor parties, the Tasmanian Parliament passed legislation in January 2014 to remove doubts about the validity of the permit for the Bell Bay Pulp Mill project; and

(b) calls on the Government to commit to maintain the environmental requirement in the Gunns Pulp Mill approval (EPBC 2007/3385) that excludes wood sourced from native forests being used as feedstock.

Question agreed to.