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Such an hysterical rant of fear mongering!  Goebbles would be impressed
with *your* style Mr. Schuck.
 
I ff you had bothered to do your research as opposed to just reacting
wildly to a perceived threat, you would have discovered that the main goal
of GP's forests campaign is not to "destroy the BC forest industry".  The
GP forsest campaign is based on three main pillars:
--->1)  Log less.  Fact is , we here in Canada are cutting trees at a
faster-than-sustainable rate.  Even with all the advanced silvicultural
methods at our disposal , we're finding it hard to replace trees at the
rate we cut them.  The primary solution to over-loggin is to use less
material.  Pulp accounts for a significant amount of all felled timber in
Canada.  By moving towards using more post-secondary recycled fiber and
moving away from inefficient mill technologies (such as Kraft pulping
which jettisons the lignen and thus nearly 50 per cent of the tree volume)
and towards more-efficient techniques (such as C-TMP) we can reduce the
overall demand for raw logs.
--->2)  Log better.  Logging less means less jobs...  or so the industry
tells us.  GP's main object ive in the forestry arena is to move away
from clearcut logging towards selective logging.  Selective logging (sl)
is far more labour-intensive than Clearcut logging (ccl).  MOst of the
studies I have seen ahave placed employment figures at 10 to 15 times as
high per volume of wood cut with sl as oppesed to ccl.  Mr. Schuck claims
that forestry in BC is an important employer but neglects to mention that
currently BC creates the *least* number of jobs per cubic metre cut of any
region in the *world*.  ssl is economically viable.  Labour costs are
higher, but capital investment is significanbtly lower as ccl requires
far more capital-intensive machinery and silvicultural costs.  By the way,
this datsa comes from the Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada's report
"Jobs, Trees and Us."  Unions tend to be more concerned about employment
than induysstry...  and the PPWC has supported GP on *many* of its
stands.
--->3)  Log some places not at all.  Some places should just plain not be
logged.  You don't tear down Rundle Mountain to make a gravle driveway. 
You don't cut Clayoquot or Wallbran or Carmanah for fax paper.  800 year
old trees in temperate rainforests don't regenerate.  
 
So, there you are, Mr. Schuck.  I hiope I;'v've saved you the painful
trouble of actually having to do research before you sit down at your
keyboard.  If you are in doubt of GP's objectives or motives on any aspect
of the forests campaign you can always call GP.  The Vancouver office
number is 253-7701.  For information on the forsests campaign you should
contact either Tzeporah (pr: Seh-por-ah) Berman or Karen MaHon.
 
As for the alleged purposful misuse of translation on the "Mike Harcourt
tag team match", you should realize that GP has far better things to do
than hire professional linguists.  GP is not perfect.  No organization is.
 On the NO Time to Waste campaign GP printed up a series of T-shirts in
Russian bearing that slogan.  Unfortunately, quite a lot was lost in the
translation and the shirts actaually read "We are wasting our time".  An
honest mistake and one that was corrected immediately.  I think a
subltele difference in the meaning of the word "to cut" is easily
over-looked and perhaps your efforts would have been better directed
towards informing GP of your observation than going off on a tantrum in
this message base.
 
As this post is too long already I will not address your charges of
terrorism (yup, that's right, GP is the only terrorist organization in the
world that has open offices and sends people to your door to talk about
their actions.) or refute your paranoid statements about this alleged
permanent boycott on BC and it's effects on industry and investment.  Just
keep in mind that GP's objectives are to ensutre clean air, clean water
and well-managed natural resources for the future.   Not to crush local
economies and drive people to the pbrink of poverty.
 
------->Grant Horwood
AD GP Calgary
ravachol@debug.cuc.ab.ca