🚀 go-pugleaf

Firstly, who the FUCK is Charles Whealton?  We here in bc.general have
been on a BC Forestry thread for a while now and as irrational as some
postings have been (IMHO) none approched the rudeness of this fellow.  I
have no idea what "//Don" did to you Charles, but perhaps you should keep
your insults to email?

Perhaps you shouldn't agree so quickly with the propaganda that Don was
questioning either.  In today's Vancouer Province columnist Brian Kieran
writes that the "Press Release" so carefully distributed through Usenet by
Gwethalyn Gauvreau was less than factual.  In fact, it was "a bald faced lie."


In article <ggauvrea.745881925@unixg.ubc.ca> ggauvrea@unixg.ubc.ca
(Gwethalyn Gauvreau) writes: 

>AUGUST 20 1993 THE FRIENDS OF CLAYOQUOT SOUND
>
>CLAYOQUOT VALLEY THREATENED
>
>As the number of arrests on the Clayoquot blockade climbs towards 600, the
>NDP government has quietly promised to give MacMillan Bloedel permission
>to begin blasting a road into the Clayoquot Valley within a month.  A
>Forest Ministry memorandum states that the new forestry guidelines
>promised by the Harcourt regime in its unpopular decision will be waived
>for a period of 12 months in order to expediate loggin in one of the last
>untouched valleys in Clayoquot Sound. Despite post-election assurances of
>public participation, no public input will be allowed during the first
>year of clearcut logging in this vital valley.
>
>"After all the expensive PR from our corporate-led government, its
>logging-as-usual in Clayoquot Sound," an angry Friends of Clayoquot Sound
>director, Valerie Langer said today.  "MacBlo has flagged its road across
>45 degree slopes along an important salmon spawning stream and we're
>supposed to trust a company with 25 convictions for damaging fisheries?"
>
>Nuu-chah-nulth nation chiefs and B.C.'s biggest environmental
>organizations have re-affirmed their pledge to keep the big multinational
>logging companies out of the pristine Clayoquot VAlley.  But the Forest
>Ministry has told MB to expect its road-building permit by Sept. 14, 1993.

_____________
According to Mr. Kieran, this "Press Release" was the second of two that
have no factual basis.  The first stated that MacMillan Bloedel paid it's
employees to attend the 5,000 strong pro-forestry ralley earlier this
month which was quickly proven to be a lie.  Today, the second was shown
to be the same.  There will be no suspension of guidelines and no
expedited blasting of roads.  There never was going to be any.

I hope Gwethalyn has something to say about this.  Do you, Gwethalyn?


-- 
"There will always be an apologist for Business As Ususal. A pleasure to
meet you, Robert"  _Jim_Hurst_

....Robert Froese  VE7MOQ                          taganov@unixg.ubc.ca