(fwd) MDF/Log Line

• Subject: (fwd) MDF/Log Line
• From: sonn@cats.ucsc.edu (David A. Sonnenfeld, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz)
• Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 06:09:13 -0700
• Approved: usenet@kuusi.metla.fi
• Newsgroups: metla.forestry-list
• Organization: Metsantutkimuslaitos
• Sender: daemon@kuusi.metla.fi (Mr Background)

Can anyone on the IUFRO list help this person out?  Thanks.


> Subject: Timber Processing Plants
> Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 12:42:13 +1100
> 
> We are seeking expert testimony on the effects of TIMBER PROCESSING
> PLANTS, in particular, MEDIUM DENSITY FIBREBOARD and LOG LINE plants. We
> are a citizens group preparing to enter planning tribunal hearings
> relating to a proposal to build t.p.p.s in a small basin near our town.
> Our concern is with pollution to all elements of the ecosystem, but
> especially the effects of COPPER CHROME ARSENIC treatments and
> FORMALDEHYDE resins. The effects of PINE MONOCULTURES on the environment
> is also at issue and we need information on the effects of FATTY ACIDS,
> TURPENES etc. in pine on human health and the ecosystem generally.
> Information on the behaviour of INVERSION LAYERS when 20-30m chimneys
> spewing hot gas and vents spewing steam are present would also be
> helpful.THERMAL POLLUTION seems to be a relatively unknown concept in
> Aotearoa-New Zealand so we are looking for anything that would help in
> establishing this type of pollution as a criteria for aseessing the
> proposal. Any help, including anecdotal testimony, would be most
> gratefully received.  
> 
> Sally Stevens
> Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND
> 
> email: rwebster@maths.otago.ac.nz

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