🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <gauvreau.754361120@unixg.ubc.ca> gauvreau@unixg.ubc.ca (Gwethalyn Gauvreau) writes:
>Iwao Terui, Associate Vice-President and Senior Executive Manager for the
>Telephone Directory Division of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT),
>expressed shock today upon viewing photographs of MacMillan Bloedel (MB)
>logging practises in the region of Port Alberni, B.C.
>
>MB is supplying 60,000 tons of paper for NTT's annual telephone
>directories distributed across Japan.  According to MB's Japan office,
>MB's paper for the three-year (1993-95) NTT telephone book contract comes
>from MB's Port Alberni mill which is adjacent to Clayoquot Sound.
>
>Garth Lenz, a professional photographer and Director of The Friends of
>Clayoquot Sound in BC informed Terui of the true nature of the origin of
>the paper during a two-hour meeting in Tokyo.  "Your telephone directory
>is being printed on pulp from trees that are up to a thousand years old
>and not second growth." Lenz told Terui.
>
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BULLSHIT.  MB is not turning valuable old-growth forest into telephone
books.  The proximity of the Port Alberni mill to Clayoquot Sound does
not mean that it is milling exclusively old growth forest.  

These greenies will say anything to destroy the BC forest industry.


Bob.

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Robert Wilson Gray
bgray@sirius.uvic.ca
uh895@freenet.victoria.bc.ca