Australian Greens Forests spokesperson Senator Nick McKim has written to the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to congratulate them on their decision to deny finance to Tasmanian logging company TP Bennett and Sons, and urge them to ignore the histrionic spin emanating from Tasmanian Forests Minister Eric Abetz.
"Bendigo and Adelaide Bank should be congratulated on their refusal to fund the destruction of Tasmania's native forests which is contributing to climate change and biodiversity collapse," Senator McKim said.
"The bank should file the nonsense from Mr Abetz where it belongs. In the rubbish."
"Mr Abetz has simply regurgitated tired old forest industry spin and completely ignored the fact that native forest logging is cooking the planet and destroying ecosystems."
"Native forest logging is an industry whose time is up, and Mr Abetz's desperate dummy spit yesterday shows that he knows it."
"If more banks had the courage to refuse to fund logging native forests and burning fossil fuels the planet's climate would not be breaking down around us and ecosystems would not be collapsing."
"Bendigo and Adelaide Bank should stick to their guns and Mr Abetz should forget about the spin and instead stop the massive public subsidies the mendicant native forest logging industry receives from his government every year."
