Lisa Stone, of local environmental group ChipStop, said Tuesday’s action was due to a lack of support or acknowledgment from the government about breach reviews of logging areas.

“It was a national day of action, we were at the chipmill from 6am, the planned national time, and locked on to conveyer belts until 10am,” Ms Stone said.

“Our main motivation was to highlight the release of the Environmental Protection Biodiversity and Conservation Act review.

“This Act governs all of Australia on issues of endangered species and habitat, and a review was released on Monday afternoon,” Ms Stone said.

Ms Stone asserted the review ignored overwhelming evidence, based on breach reports of logging areas, that not enough was being done to protect local forests, species and habitats.

She also stated that because Regional Forest Agreements render SEFE exempt to court action, environmentalists had very few options in combatting the problems.

“All we can do is put our bodies on the line, we cannot take court action,” Ms Stone said.

However, the action’s impact on chipmill proceedings was minimal, as the mill wasn’t operating this Monday and Tuesday due to on-site training.

Corporate Affairs Manager at SEFE, Vince Phillips, said the protest went largely unnoticed on the day.

“Essentially they tied themselves to a handrail and we observed them with our security cameras,” Mr Phillips said.

“The protest didn’t have any impact because the mill wasn’t operating anyway, but on a normal day it would have.”