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The black hole

By Mike Bolan - posted Monday, 29 September 2008

Did they honestly report the risks to Gunns?

The IIS contained no economic risk assessments, no alerts about the many weaknesses in Monash economic modelling, understated dioxin hazards and so on. The RPDC process that would have alerted the company to such concerns was truncated, leaving Gunns’ whole company at risk.

Independent experts identified the risks when the IIS first appeared, but the project carried on regardless.

Perhaps Gunns will bring their advisors to account in a new legal action.

Watch this space.

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First published in The Tasmanian Times on September 22, 2008.

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About the Author

Mike Bolan is an independent complex systems and business consultant. Mike worked for the Tamar valley community and others to prepare materials for the RPDC in which he spent about a year visiting Tasmanian communities, businesses and individuals to learn the impacts of forestry operations and the implications of a pulp mill on them. The lessons learned from that period are still relevant today and are used in this story, which is told to inform not to gain income.