Join the campaign!

1. Urge NSW Environment Minister Carmel Tebbutt to close the Eden woodchip mill!

Help us stop this destruction in the south east

Help us stop this destruction in the south east

NSW Environment Minister Carmel Tebbutt has the power to stop the woodchipping of the south east forests and in the process save millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year and the lives of our native birds and forest animals.  Write, email, call, fax or visit her today.

If you live in the Inner West electorate of Marrickville, all the better.  Carmel Tebbutt is your local member.  Get down to her office today!

Carmel Tebbutt
Minister for the Environment and Climate Change
244 Illawarra Rd
Marrickville  NSW 2204
Email: marrickville@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Ph: (02) 9558 9000
Fax: (02) 9558 3653

2. If you live in the Inner West electorate of Marrickville, download this leaflet for friends and family and hand them out in your local area.

3. Write letters to your local papers calling on Carmel to close the mill.

In the Inner West electorate of Marrickville, write to:

  • The Glebe at editor@theglebe.com.au
  • The Inner West Courier at innerwestcourierletters@couriernews.com.au

4. Get your local council involved

Contact your local councillors and urge them to move a motion to save the south east forests from woodchipping.

You can use the template below.

I move that this Council notes that:

  1. The Eden woodchip mill, operated by South East Fibre Exports Pty Ltd (SEFE), destroys native forests in the NSW south east to provide woodchips for the Japanese paper industry,
  2. The NSW south east forests are some of the most carbon dense in the world and that woodchipping those forests is a lost opportunity to help combat climate change,
  3. Logging of native forests for the woodchipping industry destroys the habitat of millions of native animals and birds in the NSW south east,
  4. The NSW government helps subsidise woodchipping in NSW by more than $3.5 million each year

I move that this Council calls on the NSW Government to:

  1. End woodchipping in NSW south east native forests,
  2. Reject any application by SEFE to establish a biomass energy plant based on native forest wood to power the woodchip mill and feed surplus electricity into the grid, and
  3. prepare a restructuring and training package for workers and management at the SEFE woodchip mill and management so that the plant is completely closed by the end of 2009 unless it can make a full transition to plantation resource.

5. Visit the south east forests and support the local community campaign

For local community groups in south east NSW, visit our links section.