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    19/05/11

    Tasmanians should not be surprised the Wilderness Society has withdrawn from the forestry negotiations, Tasmanian Liberal Senator and Coalition forestry spokesman Richard Colbeck said.

    “This is a transparent tactic and is part of a carefully planned Wilderness Society campaign,” Senator Colbeck said.

    “It’s a tactic the Wilderness Society has used many times before, including in the final stages of the Regional Forest Agreements when it couldn’t get its own way.

    “The Wilderness Society needs to remember it signed up to a negotiation process, and it can’t dictate.

    “Some ENGOs involved in these talks have been making threats since the outset. The Wilderness Society is just continuing the theme.

    “It is clear the Wilderness Society is only about advancing its own agenda and it will sacrifice the current process to do so.

    “The Wilderness Society and the ENGOs have been running a carefully coordinated campaign from the start.

    “They have designated negotiators upfront, like Vica Bailey, but behind the scenes they are backgrounding media with misinformation, orchestrating protests and generally sabotaging the negotiation process and the Statement of Principles they claim to support.

    Senator Colbeck said the Wilderness Society and protest groups continue to mislead the community about the moratorium on 560,000 hectares of native forest.

    “The moratorium agreed to by industry and ENGO signatories is not about ceasing logging en masse in those forests - it is about assessing over a period of six months and determining which areas MAY need protection,” Senator Colbeck said.

    “As well as the moratorium, there are 17 other components to the Statement of Principles which are on the table for negotiation.

    “All of the ENGOs involved in this process must decide whether they are about negotiating or dictating.”
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