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    Quote Originally Posted by John.G View Post
    ... the power line corridor off the Karreya Hydro station... runs out through all that lovely, locked up, no longer owned by the people of Qld, World Heritage Listed Wet Tropics Rainforest.
    I can see the filthy lucre pour into the tax mans coffers...."can't be helped", special exemption, of course.

    Preservation/conservation my hat. This is about tax, pure and simple.

    John.G I hope you made them bleed with your fees.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evanism View Post
    I can see the filthy lucre pour into the tax mans coffers...."can't be helped", special exemption, of course.

    Preservation/conservation my hat. This is about tax, pure and simple.

    John.G I hope you made them bleed with your fees.

    I grew up in Tully, and my parents still live there: I never sent a bill in for any of the emergency work I did, not even for replacement chains (and I wrecked a few in the first few days in the town itself cutting backyard trees up).

    Could be worse: I was accused by the disaster management mob of "profiteering from peoples misery" when I stopped and started pulling in sawlogs, and requested permission to salvage what I could off council land for scantling timber. That hurt!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by John.G View Post
    I grew up in Tully, and my parents still live there: I never sent a bill in for any of the emergency work I did, not even for replacement chains (and I wrecked a few in the first few days in the town itself cutting backyard trees up).

    Could be worse: I was accused by the disaster management mob of "profiteering from peoples misery" when I stopped and started pulling in sawlogs, and requested permission to salvage what I could off council land for scantling timber. That hurt!!!
    Apart from hurting it truly sucks!! There seems to be no end to the small mindedness of some people
    or the stupidity of others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John.G View Post
    Post T.C. Yasi I spent about 6 weeks on emergency clean up work before we started on salvaging what we could.

    Part of that time I spent helping to clean the power line corridor off the Karreya Hydro station... runs out through all that lovely, locked up, no longer owned by the people of Qld, World Heritage Listed Wet Tropics Rainforest.

    Across just three in ridges there my professional estimate is that I cut well over 2 million dollars (wholesale) worth of cabinet timber
    - mostly silky oak, bit of maple, bit of cedar -
    plus a whole heap of structual timber
    into pieces small enough that they could be shunted off the line with an excavator.
    So they could lie there and rot.
    I'm all for protecting the rainforest. I'm all for the sustainable harvesting of native forest timber. I'm a conservationist but not a preservationist I guess... the latter camp being where most aussie "conservationists" really stand.
    But that was just waste. Towns that are nearly destroyed just down the road and are going to need timber to rebuild... but you can't take these blown over and need to be cut up trees because well... they're on the wrong side of a line of a map so they have to remain there to rot.
    Stupid, stupid , stupid!!!!

    I hope they catch these b@$ta@rds, I really do. But the entire issue of National Parks management in a lot of states needs a shake up. And don't even start me - 4 generations in the FNQ timber industry - on World Heritage Listings.
    John I can sympathise with you & like you I am not a preservationist. I firmly believe that that timber should have been recovered and used as high value cabinet timbers. Only problem was the lack of available milling capacity after Mr Richardson decimated the timber industry and many local families like the Rankines.

    My dad was a registered builder in Cairns so I accompanied him to JM Johnston's latter Rankines mill at Stratford, saw the Hancock, Rankine, and Capricornia ply mills operating in Cairns as a kid. We built many homes with silky oak frames and weatherboards which I now see as a terrible waste but at the time it was a practical use & like you said recently you have to pay the bills.

    I firmly hope that we can still get access to at least some HQ timbers from private resources and that we still have some viable mills to process them. Small millers like Ron O'Brien in Prossy really struggle to remain viable these days with all the regs, & WHS etc. A dying breed.

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    I checked out this thread the other day and conscience has got the better of me. So I would just like to go on record and say "It wasn't me, it couldn't have been me, I wasn't there, I've never been there! I swear it wasn't me."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tim Creeper View Post
    I checked out this thread the other day and conscience has got the better of me. So I would just like to go on record and say "It wasn't me, it couldn't have been me, I wasn't there, I've never been there! I swear it wasn't me."
    Ah ha!! methinks the laddie doth protest too much!

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