Vic: Pulp challenged dismissed

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2009
Vic: Pulp challenged dismissed

The Federal Court has dismissed a legal challenge to the government's approval for
Gunns to build a pulp mill in Tasmania.

A group of green lawyers had challenged Environment Minister PETER GARRETT'S approval
of the pulp mill in northern Tasmania's Tamar Valley on environmental grounds.

They argued the government's decision to approve the mill in 2007 was not made lawfully.

But in Melbourne on Thursday .. Federal Court judge Justice RICHARD TRACEY dismissed
the challenge .. ruling none of the grounds relied on by the group Lawyers For Forests
were sustainable.

Outside court .. LFF's VANESSA BLEYER said the case was dismissed on legal technical
grounds .. rather than on its merits .. and they'll consider an appeal.

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KEYWORD: PULP (MELBOURNE)

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