Matthew Denholm; 15/8/08
The company contracted to build the $2billion Tasmanian pulp mill for Gunns says the project is unlikely to “ever happen”, as opponents last night declared the controversial proposal “dead”. Leighton Holdings chief executive Wal King yesterday suggested the troubled mill, proposed for Long Reach on the Tamar River about 35km north of Launceston, was a lost cause. Asked at Leighton’s results meeting in Sydney to say when construction of the mill would start, Mr King said: “You’ll be able to ask me the same questions next year, and the year after that and the year after that — I don’t think it’s ever going to happen.”
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