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Victorian government to provide hundreds of millions in support for workers leaving embattled logging industry
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-23/victoria-native-timber-logging-industry-budget/102379388
- The government will provide more than $200 million that will help transition workers out of the native timber industry
- Workers will be given opportunities to retrain for other sectors
- VicForests stopped harvesting in November last year after the Supreme Court ruled it had broken the law
I think timber is a great natural and renewable resource, but we should have changed over to 100% plantation timber many, many years ago. Why were they logging old growth forests? Mountain Ash is a great hardwood and grows extremely well in plantations. But, successive state governments have been propping-up this environmental vandalism. Enough is enough!
It's a good move to offer assistance to workers to retrain ā preferably in related areas such as environmental management, bushfire management, habitat restoration, and programmes to help endangered species that have been threatened by the destruction of native forests.
#AusPol #VicPol #SpringSt #Logging #Environment #EndangeredSpecies #VicForests
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-23/victoria-native-timber-logging-industry-budget/102379388
- The government will provide more than $200 million that will help transition workers out of the native timber industry
- Workers will be given opportunities to retrain for other sectors
- VicForests stopped harvesting in November last year after the Supreme Court ruled it had broken the law
I think timber is a great natural and renewable resource, but we should have changed over to 100% plantation timber many, many years ago. Why were they logging old growth forests? Mountain Ash is a great hardwood and grows extremely well in plantations. But, successive state governments have been propping-up this environmental vandalism. Enough is enough!
It's a good move to offer assistance to workers to retrain ā preferably in related areas such as environmental management, bushfire management, habitat restoration, and programmes to help endangered species that have been threatened by the destruction of native forests.
#AusPol #VicPol #SpringSt #Logging #Environment #EndangeredSpecies #VicForests