WFF starts campaign to pressure QLD Natural resources Minister Craig Wallace to remove exemption on clearing of regrowth.
Yesterday I wrote about a disgraceful article that Crikey anti farmer reporter Bernard Keane had written. QLD Farmer illegally land clearing.
I asked why he would launch such a blatant attack on farmers. Agmates reader Peter pointed out the the figures he was quoting were 2-3 years old (2005-2006) and that Courier Mail ‘journalist’ Brian Williams had run a similar article in todays paper, Outback Clearing Continues despite Tree Laws.
At first glance I thought the article was just a grubby example of ‘churn’ journalism as it quoted the same 2-3 year old figures. But then I had a closer look at it. Straight away you can see what the grubs at the radical green group WWF are up too.
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WWF-Australia spokesman Nick Heath said the clearing was equivalent to 5.1 million average-sized suburban blocks and accounted for 24 per cent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr Heath said that, despite new state laws, loopholes had allowed farmers to clear an enormous amount of land.
He called for a clearing moratorium until the loopholes were plugged.
There have been a lot of good intentions in recent years but the fact remains total clearing is relatively unchanged from mid-90s,” Mr Heath said.
The loopholes included the regrowth exemption, under which an area as big as Tasmania could be cleared without a permit.”
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And obviously they are putting the pressure on QLD Natural Resources Minister Craig Wallace.
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“A spokeswoman for Natural Resources Minister Craig Wallace said the figures were being investigated.”
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Typical of WWF - use years old data and blatant miss truths to beat up a story to put pressure on the Minister to ban cleaning of of regrowth.
Queensland farmers & graziers need too send this article too your local AgForce rep and get them to kill this move to scrap the regrowth exemption with the minister before it gains any traction in his or his departments minds.
(thanks to Agmates reader Peter from Roma)
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Tags: AgForce, Brian Williams, Courier Mail, Craig Wallace, Crikey, Nick Heath, Tree Clearing, WWF
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