What does Gunns have to do to minimise road kill?
Road kill is very visible on Tasmanian roads and can be distressing. An increase in traffic can impact on the populations of local species and this is why Gunns will undertake activities to monitor and reduce the chance of this impacting on local threatened species. There is no meaningful baseline data on the number of species killed on the roads to and from the pulp mill site. This makes it difficult to monitor how an increase in traffic will affect the species as there is no comparable data. Therefore, Gunns is required to adopt a trigger level of zero, which means they will automatically implement response strategies to minimise road kill. Gunns has committed to: • reduce speed limits on all internal access roads • monitor and remove road kill to reduce secondary kills • reduce worker traffic by 36 per cent from what was originally proposed in the draft integrated impact statement • provide a daily bus service between George Town and Launceston and the mill once construction workers
