Beech pulp mill
Sir, — The presidents of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (Mr W. G. Beaven) and of the Contractors’ Federation (Mr A. Mills) have accused environmentalists (“The Press” August 9 and October 28, respectively) of blocking the West Coast beech pulp mill project. Conservationists
certainly spearhi.Jed opposition to this scheme which would replace native forest with pine on some of the most abysmal Sites for this species in New Zealand. Acceptance of the conservation ethic was not, however, the reason the project foundered and disproved the celebrated boast of Sir Reginald Smythe of New Zealand Forest Products, about fixing “the birds and bees people when their time came.” What finally “fixed’’ N.Z.F.P., albeit after an unbelievable amount cf money had been spent by the State and the company on promoting the proposal, was the realisation that it was completely uneconomic and impractical and would almost certainly prove a taxpayer disaster. — Yours, etc., ERIC BENNETT. Wellington, October 21, 1980.
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