Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Gunns Triabunna sale

Gunns has accepted the $10 million bid by entrepreneurs Graeme Wood and Jan Cameron for the Triabunna woodchip mill.

Gunns has confirmed the sale on the stock exchange.

In a statement, Gunns says the terms of the deal, subject to the forestry statement of principles, allows for the mill to be leased to an industrial operator as a woodchip export business.

It is a condition of Tasmania's interim peace deal that the mill stays in the industry.

Greens leader Nick McKim has described the sale as a significant development for the forest peace process.

Mr McKim says it should be a wake-up call for the state and federal governments to start implementing the forest peace deal.

"The fact that this mill shortly will be owned by a consortium that believes in that statement of principles process rather than an organisation that in effect was a front group for Forestry Tasmania is a very significant development," he said.