Activists stalk logging truck for 200kms
Anti-logging activists stalked a logging truck for almost 200km, tailgating and weaving in and out of traffic, before being intercepted by police.
Timber and forestry
Wombat Forest worker targeted in activist attack
Activists smashed up a $350,000 logging excavator and daubed it with graffiti, warning its owner has “become a target”.
Former timber workers find jobs
An East Gippsland building business has received a half a million dollar government grant to expand on the site of an old sawmill.
VicForest lockout hits early
Legal action has forced firewood, fence post and specialty timber cutters out of Victoria’s forests, five months ahead of schedule.
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Gippsland timber workers left in the lurch
The Victorian Government has planted just 0.01 per cent of the 30 million trees promised to assist timber workers – six years on from the announcement.
‘Dudded’: East Gippsland’s broken promises and dashed hopes
With the timber industry winding down, East Gippsland is growing increasingly frustrated with stalled tourism infrastructure rebuilds. See the details.
Firewood shortage fuels energy bill pain
Regional Victorian households’ cheapest form of heating – firewood – is about to become far more expensive.
VicForests job losses loom
VicForests’ 163 staff, from Hamilton to Orbost, have been left in limbo as the Andrews government prepares to axe native forest logging.
VicForests Supreme Court appeal rejected
The final nail in the coffin of Victoria’s native timber harvesting has been hammered in by a Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday.
‘Not much choice’: Timber plans gutted
Mill owners and harvest contractors’ multimillion dollar investments have been ruined by the now-earlier phasing out of native forest timber harvesting.
Timber harvesting to end in new year
The Andrews government has caved to environment groups’ legal challenges to lock up state forests, announcing an end to native timber harvesting in today’s budget.
560 timber jobs axed
Timber workers argue the Andrews government has always had the power to save their jobs.
Timber crews ignored by Victorian government
Out-of-work harvest and haulage crews, who are vital to fighting fires, are missing out on DEECA contracts to build strategic fuel breaks.
Victoria set to lose forest fire contractors
Victoria is set to lose the 284 harvest and haulage contractors who used their heavy machinery to fight the 2019-20 Black Summer fires.
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