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Call for Gunns' pipeline halt

Updated Fri Aug 6, 2010 11:44am AEST

Gunns has confirmed it has negotiated to use an easement for the pipeline to feed its proposed Tamar Valley mill. (ABC TV)

An anti-pulp mill group wants the Tasmanian Premier to stop a water pipeline for the Gunns pulp mill.

Gunns has confirmed it has negotiated with the Government to use an easement along the Dilston bypass for the water pipeline.

Land owner Gerald Archer says he has had no contact with Gunns or the State Government about the pipeline for two and a half years

Vanessa Bleyer from the anti-pulp mill group, Friends of the Tamar Valley says the Government and Gunns are taking away private landowners' rights.

"It's okay for the private land to be compulsorily acquired for a road because it's going to serve a benefit to the community but how is it okay for someone's private land to be taken away for a private purpose for Gunns' pipeline?" she asked.