Background
The world's largest exporters of woodchips and the state's largest forest company.
What is Gunns Limited?
The four basic types of Policy Network.
What are bureaucratic, clientelistic/captured, triadic/corporatist, and pluralistic/issue networks?
Most Tasmanians felt comforted when Gunns Limited proposed a massive pulp mill.
What is the fact that the pulp mill project was to undergo an intense environmental assessment by the state’s planning body?
Tasmanian government creates PMTF.
What is the “Pulp Mill Task Force,” created by the Tasmanian government to promote the establishment of a pulp mill, campaign, advertise, host public events and bus tours to provide information on the benefits of the pulp mill?
The impact and mitigation of discharge from the mill.
What is strict limits on levels of discharge that can be released by the mill in order to ensure the marine environment is protected (monitoring quality of water, sediment, and ecology)?
Gunn's Limited proposal.
What is building a pulp mill at Bell Bay in the state's northeast?
Tasmania's forest policy network type.
What is triadic/corporatist type (Integrates business and workers with the state in the formulation of the state's forest policies)?
CROPS.
What is “Concerned Residents Opposing Pulp Mill Siting” (groups concerned about impacts on agriculture, fishing, forestry, and health)?
Roll that political donations played.
What is thousands of dollars? (Robin Gray, a Gunns director, was part of the Tasmanian liberal party and used the previous support to gain more financial benefits)
Signal of the end of the project.
What are permits for the proposed building lapsing (August 30th 2017)?
Pulp Mill plan approval date.
What is October 4th 2007?
Tasmanian’s forest policy network’s interests.
What is maintaining and expanding Tasmania’s forest industry, which generates profit for companies, revenues for the government, and jobs for workers?
The Forest Industry Association of Tasmania (FIAT).
What is a group who unites several companies operating in Tasmania under a single institutional umbrella?
The structure of Tasmania’s political economy shaped the policy network during this proposal.
What is a closed policy network? (Featured all under one umbrella were the major players of the government, labour, and industry)
The state of the land at Bell Bay.
What is two years on the market?
The state's planning body.
What is the Resource Planning and Development Commission (RPDC)?
Other examples of closed policy networks.
What are other natural resources sectors such as agriculture and fisheries?
How workers are organized geographically.
What is Timber Communities Australia (TCA)?
The state’s two dominant political parties.
What is ALP (Tasmanian Branch) and the Liberal Party of Tasmania?
If Gunns exceeds the maximum discharge limit.
What are civil and criminal sanctions under national environmental law (including penalties for each offense up to $1.1 million)?
Gunns pulp mill case's overarching message.
What is the idea that institutions are able to constrain interests in market-based economies with competitive electoral systems?
Howlett and Ramesh identify eight policy networks based on two variables.
What is:
(1) the number of actors in the network
and...
(2) the relationship between state and societal actors in the network?
Inversion layer and poor air quality?
What is the reason Raverty is quoted as saying, "Bell Bay was one of the worst possible locations for the proposed pulp mill," right after he resigned.
Expediting planning approval process.
What is the government backing the company in its decision to quit the state's environmental assessment system and put in place special legislation to deliver a sympathetic, fast-track review?
Proposal outcome.
What is $2.3 billion (the proposed dollar amount for the Bell Bay Pulp Mill), and planning to build a pulp mill in the Tamar Valley.