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	SIGN PETITION: SAY 'NO' TO WOODCHIP POWER

77% of people polled in 2009 want no logging at all in native forests and the Eden chip mill closed. Why do state and federal governments continue to support it when Forestry NSW and Victoria admit to losing millions of dollars supplying pulplogs to the woodchip mills? Australia recognises the importance of foreign forests for climate so why do we continue to subsidise the destruction and degradation of Australian native forests in Tasmania, Victoria and NSW??

Now there are plans to burn native forest wood for electricity under the Renewable Energy Mandate. This power will undercut and displace true renewable power from wind, solar, tidal and geothermal sources.

Because Australia has more than enough existing plantation hard and soft woods to supply virtually all our timber and fibre needs we should end the intensive logging of native forests while supporting the transition to existing plantations leaving native forests to mature and store carbon.

The Campaign includes:

• Public forums at Bega CWA Hall and Bermagui CWA Hall, 2008
• Public forum with Bob Brown at the Community Hall Bermagui, 2008
• Public forum at Tyford Hall, Merrimbula, 2009
• SERCA Forest Tour, October 2009
• Radio advertisements from: don't make me laugh, November, 2009
• Travelling billboard Save the Forests November, 2009

Australia’s native forests offer a positive and low cost way to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions. Instead of woodchipping, we should recognise native forests as our most important living carbon stores. Native forests are an essential natural mechanism for stabilising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide in the short and long term.