There goes the neighbourhood and now goes the value of my trees...

There goes the neighbourhood and now goes the value of my trees and sure as day follows night probally the share price,But my trees OH,OH,--SAVE MY TREES


You better address this Gunns quickly,otherwise you will not be growing let alone mill trees the way you are going.

Also when and if,I sus is when that gunns implement a massive clean up on this toxic fallout,you know like they do for oil spills in the Arafura sea or an oil slick around Moreton Island.

For my part on the premise that I OWN the trees,that I will expect to be sued for the clean up just like these ships that spill their dodgy ballast water and oil and now GUNNS tree toxins.

I suggest people not try and sleight Dr.Bleaney personally---besides its the lowest card in the deck and a signature that you have no constructive dialogue with this serous but important OH&S issue



Toxic water linked to forestry trees Matthew Denham, Tasmania correspondent From: The Australian February 22, 2010 12:00AM

RESEARCH has linked toxicity in a Tasmanian river used for drinking water to the leaves of genetically improved plantation eucalypt trees, prompting calls for a wider inquiry.
The woman behind the work, local GP Alison Bleaney, yesterday told The Australian the findings, featured on ABC TV's Australian Story tonight, warranted a full and thorough inquiry.

"We need to get to the bottom of this so that forestry can go on growing their trees and we can continue to drink our water," Dr Bleaney said.

A long investigation by Dr Bleaney and Sydney scientist Marcus Scammell -- involving the testing of water at independent laboratories interstate -- concluded a toxin found in the George River on Tasmania's east coast was from the leaves of the eucalyptus nitens.

The species is widely used by forestry companies for plantation forests, which cover an estimated 300,000ha of Tasmania.


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Dr Scammell told the program that a Tasmanian government investigation had come to the same conclusion.

"They've concluded that it's naturally occurring and therefore not an issue -- we haven't accepted that," he said.

Having found that water samples from the George River were toxic to water fleas, oyster larvae and sea urchins, the two doctors sent water samples to the University of NSW for testing on human cell lines.

University environmental toxicologist Christian Khalil said whatever agent was in the water was 100 per cent toxic to human skin, liver and lung cells.

"It is toxic, but I don't know the extent of the impact on the whole body," Dr Khalil told the program.

"We're doing experiments using single cells, which is different from an organism where you have multiple cells interacting with each other and where cells can repair themselves in the human body."

New Zealand ecotoxicologist Chris Hickey reviewed and repeated the tests using foam from the river, including from a site near the drinking water intake for the town of St Helens. He found the foam toxic to mussel larvae. Further tests showed the leaves of the genetically improved nitens trees were much more likely to generate foam in water than those of unmodified old growth nitens.

Federal Liberal senator Bill Heffernan demanded the government launch a scientific review of the claims.

"I'd also like to see a Senate inquiry to get some facts on the table," he said.