Lennon pushes for bio-mass power station.


The Tasmanian Premier says while he is committed to phasing out clear-felling, a solution needs to be found to reducing the forest fuel created by other harvesting methods.
Paul Lennon told Parliamentary committee hearings yesterday that he will not allow fuel levels to build up to dangerous fire levels.
He says it strengthens the argument for a bio-mass power station in Tasmania's south.
"I remain committed to trying to find a way in the southern forests to have a bio-mass power station constructed," he said.
"I know that provides a solution which will prevent a fuel build-up in the state forest, which could threaten a repeat of 1967."
In 1967, up to 110 separate fire fronts burnt through about 2,642 square kilometres of land in southern Tasmania