ANZ and Gunns
Thursday, February 28th, 2008If you’re an ANZ bank customer, and you oppose the Gunn’s pulp mill in Tasmania, check this out:
GetUp.org.au is asking ANZ customers to speak to their bank managers about the pulp mill. ANZ is considering funding the pulp mill, and could be swayed against it if they think that it will affect the way the public sees them. GetUp is asking people to tell ANZ that they’ll take their business elsewhere if they fund the mill - they have a list of facts to help you work out what to say. You can sign up here on the ANZ campaign page.
The Tasmanian government has signed over large amounts of state forest to Gunns for the next 20 years. Given how urgent the problem of climate change is getting, it’s madness to deliberately chop down ancient forests which would otherwise be absorbing carbon dioxide for us. The trees will only be used to make wood pulp which will then be turned into paper in Japan, while we get our forests taken away and a dirty mill in their place, and Gunns gets the profit.
At this point, the campaign is focused on ANZ customers only, so I’m not able to participate, although I’ve joined in previously. But I thought some of you might be interested.