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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Colleagues</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have forwarded the email below for any who are
interested in the campaign to stop the proposed pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar
Valley.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anne Sibbel</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> If a tree falls in the woods, will anybody
hear?</DIV></DIV>
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<P><A href="http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/NoPulpMill&id=304?dc=269,84843"
border="0"><IMG
src="http://www.getup.org.au/images/campaigns/actions/304.jpg"></A> <BR><BR>Dear
friends,
<P>You may have missed it, but the Tasmanian Government last week unbelievably
signed an agreement handing over Tasmania's forests to the Gunns pulp mill for
<B>the next 20 years</B> - in the <I>very same week</I> Professor Garnaut warned
them of the dire climate change consequences facing us.</P>
<P>If we don't act now, bulldozers will start clearing land for the mill that
will contribute 2% of Australia's greenhouse emissions - at a time when we're
being told we need to drastically cut our emissions. But unfortunately
Australia's forests were largely left out of Garnaut's recent interim
report.</P>
<P>We have only one opportunity to put them in the picture. A proper assessment
in his impending Climate Change Report of our native forests' climate change
value may just sink the mill project. <B>Click here now to sign the petition
asking Professor Garnaut to examine the full climate impact of this mill madness
and the logging of Tasmania's native forests:</B></P>
<P><A
href="http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/NoPulpMill&id=304?dc=269,84843"><B>http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/DontPulpOurClimate</B></A></P>
<P>There's a real risk the Garnaut report won't include a comprehensive
assessment of native forests - despite new research finding the stopping of
deforestation a "large, immediate and perishable opportunity"* to
<I>massively</I> reduce emissions. Costing out the real value of native forests
will not only prove Tasmania's trees would be better left in the ground but
<B>make this teetering project financially unviable when Gunns realises they
will have to pay for the carbon embedded in our forests.</B></P>
<P>Native forests are invaluable sources of carbon storage - and it costs
nothing to leave them in the ground. But 80% of the 4.5 million tonnes of wood
needed to supply the pulp mill each year will initially come from Tassie's
native forests - permanently destroying forests that can hold 10-20 times the
amount of CO2 than plantations.</P>
<P><B>A proper assessment of their climate change value will undoubtedly make
the arguments in favour of the mill, whose climate change impact has never even
been assessed, untenable.</B> Take action to protect nature's lungs before the
bulldozers move in:</P>
<P><A
href="http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/NoPulpMill&id=304?dc=269,84843"><B>http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/DontPulpOurClimate</B></A></P>
<P>Professor Gaurnaut can expose this ill-conceived pulp mill as the carbon
disaster that it is. The report is the most important study for Australia's
future, and this is only the first step in our efforts to ensure it adequately
prepares us for the challenges ahead - by taking into account all relevant
factors.</P>
<P>We only get one shot at averting climate disaster - let's make sure that shot
includes an appreciation for the carbon carrying capacity of our forests.</P>
<P>Thanks for being a part of the solution,<BR>The GetUp team</P>
<P>PS - Over 700 fellow GetUp members have committed to visit their ANZ branch
manager to express their concerns to the bank considering financing the mill.
Are you a customer? <A
href="http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/NoPulpMill&id=300?dc=269,84843">Click
here</A> to find out more!
<P>PPS - GetUp is now hiring! <A
href="http://www.getup.org.au/pages/hiring?dc=269,84843">Click here</A> for
details.
<P>*"An Australian cost curve for greenhouse gas reduction" McKinsey &
Company February 2008 (http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/ccsi/)</P>
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