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Forestry Tasmania has again been forced to correct a misleading claim by an environmental group, this time the Huon Valley Environment Centre.
General Manager Corporate Relations and Tourism Ken Jeffreys said it was a case of the Huon Valley Environment Centre failing to understand simple forestry.
"In order to produce 265,000 cubic metres of billets for Ta Ann, it is necessary to supply 330,000 cubic metres of logs to the merchandiser yards for processing.
"From these logs, Ta Ann is supplied with 265,000 cubic metres of suitable sized billets, with the waste wood being on sold to other processors.
"The additional 65,000 cubic metres that Jenny Webber refers to is the pulpwood residue that is created when logs are processed in the merchandising yard to produce these billets.
"There is a failure here to understand that billets do not come directly from the forest. They are processed from larger logs, creating an amount of pulpwood not suitable for processing at Ta Ann.
"Unfortunately mother nature doesn't grow trees to billet specification, there is waste wood at either end that is chipped for export."
ENDS
20 December 2011
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