Triabunna sale had pulp mill aim: inquiry

By Georgie Burgess
Updated August 13 2014 - 9:36am, first published August 12 2014 - 11:34pm
Forest Industries Association of Tasmania chairman Glenn Britton and chief executive Terry Edwards during evidence at the Triabunna woodchip mill inquiry. Picture: GEORGIE BURGESS
Forest Industries Association of Tasmania chairman Glenn Britton and chief executive Terry Edwards during evidence at the Triabunna woodchip mill inquiry. Picture: GEORGIE BURGESS

THE decision of former timber company Gunns to sell the Triabunna woodchip mill to environmentalists was a strategic move to obtain a social licence for the Tamar Valley pulp mill, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

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