«Details of the sham agreement are spreading far and wide and I am now being contacted by
boat builders who fear Tasmania's wooden
boat building industry will be ruined... Despite the fact that 90 per cent of two key iconic species, Celery Top Pine and King Bill Pine, are already in reserves the Greens are still not satisfied... More than 70 per cent of remaining sources of these timbers are in the 430,000 hectares rubber stamped by former Wilderness Society director Jonathan West in his flimsy advice accepted by the Prime Minister and the
Premier last week... The wooden
boat industry has an estimated annual value of $ 50 million but without a timber supply it has no future.»