Holroyd City Council attacks Greenpeace

December 9th, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Money Hungry NSW Holroyd Sydney council is demanding a review of Greenpeace’s tax-free status after fears that harassment by the environmental group could close down a local factory.

It is one of a number of signs of a looming backlash against activist organisations which have recently been targeting big corporations.

One business group is understood to be looking at the exemption from secondary boycott laws currently enjoyed by environmental organisations.

Holroyd City Council, in Sydney’s west, has asked local federal member, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, for an investigation into Greenpeace’s activities.

At issue is the future of a $20 million factory built by tissue maker Solaris paper, using supplies made from Indonesian forest timber.

Greenpeace has successfully campaigned against what it claims was felling of protected Indonesian rainforests and accused the supplier, Asia Pulp and Paper, of endangering the Sumatran tiger.
As a result Solaris has lost all its customers, including supermarket chains Woolworths and IGA, and instead of employing 25 to 30 workers the factory in Greystanes is idle.

Jobs are already scarce in the area.

Solaris has denied the charges and said the supplies came from appropriate sources, and accused Greenpeace of putting Indonesian investment and growth at risk.

As news.com.au revealed today the company is now considering closing the plant entirely.

Last Tuesday night Holroyd City Council unanimously passed an urgency motion to alert Mr Bowen to “concern for the future viability of Solaris Paper due to a hardline publicity campaign and series of boycotts of Greenpeace, which seeks to target suppliers to the plant right through to the supply chain to their retail clients”.

“An investigation into these tactics should consider a review of Greenpeace’s special taxation status as a charitable organisation.”

The motion was moved by Councillor Ross Grove, a Liberal in a council with an independent mayor and Labor councillors.

“Solaris was one of the first to move into our new industrial precinct inside Prospect Hill,” Mr Grove told news.com.au.

“And we haven’t had a huge take-up of that land. Manufacturing isn’t exactly at its high point.

“They were one of our very first investors in what basically is a new employment plan.”

Mr Grove said New Zealand and Canada didn’t have tax exemptions for Greenpeace, and said Australian governments should “draw attention to Greenpeace the way Greenpeace draws attention to Solaris”.

“Place scrutiny on an organisation that is placing scrutiny on others. I think there is no disinfectant greater than sunlight,” he said.

Mr Grove said this week he was at a school presentation representing the Mayor, where a Solaris representative was meant to help hand out certificates.

The company representative was kept away by discussions over the future of the plant and media inquiries.

Mr Grove recalled: “I said, ‘well, they’re not going to be able to do this if they are actually closing down’. A teacher said to me, ‘Well I’m glad we took that $10,000 from them first’.

“And I thought to myself, that’s something I wasn’t really aware of. I knew they sponsored awards at the school but we weren’t even aware of just how much they contributed.”