Join the campaign!

1. Urge NSW Environment Minister Frank Sartor to close the Eden woodchip mill!

Lee Rhiannon joined the blockade at Mumbulla Forest, 9 April 2010

NSW Environment Minister Frank Sartor 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 him today.

If you live in the Southern Sydney electorate of Rockdale, all the better.  Frank Sartor is your local member.  Get down to his office today!

Frank Sartor
Minister for Climate Change and the Environment
Phone (02) 9228 5811
Fax (02) 9228 5499
office@sartor.minister.nsw.gov.au
rockdale@parliament.nsw.gov.au

2. Write letters to your local papers calling on Frank to close the mill.

In the Southern Sydney electorate of Rockdale, write to:

    • St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
      Ph (02) 9588 8888
      Fax (02) 9588 8887
      Letter to Editor:  amartinez@fairfaxmedia.com.au

3. 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.
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader (02) 9588 8888 (02) 9588 8887