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Corrected version of Schuck's comments follow.

In article <schuck.746311669@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
>The environmental groups were invited to participate in land-use
>committees and
               ...some of them...
>               chose to boycott them.
                                      ...for reasons ranging,
I'm sure, from pettiness to measured decisions that their
participation would be pointless given the way the talks were
going.

>The compromise involved setting aside
                                      ...a very small...
>                                      part of
                                              ...the old-growth rainforest in...
>                                              the Clayoquot for
>preservation and forcing Mac-Blo to use
                                        ...slightly...
>                                        differnet loggin methods that
>are
    ...somewhat...
>    more costly but
                    ...slightly...
>                    more environmentally friendly.

>Whats your idea of compromise?
>Complete and utter surrender to the ecofacists?

     One indicator that a true "compromise" has been achieved is
when there are a fair number of people on each side of the issue
that are opposed to the solution.  No such luck in this
situation, where environmentalists from across BC, across
Canada, and around the world are opposed to the "compromise"
while the forest companies/unions seem pleased as punch.

     Obviously the provincial government miscalculated on this
one.  They should have set aside more old-growth rainforest than
they did, made the enforced methods more environmentally
friendly than they did, made the annual allowable cut lower than
they did, or a combination of these things -- if only to save
their political asses.  You can bet that they are saying these
things to themselves right now.

     As for fascists in BC, I don't know that there are any but
I'll take your word for it, Bruce.

--Jamie.
  jamie@cs.sfu.ca
"Why doth thou slay my kine?  Kine are hard to come by.
 Now I am short kine and I'm not even sure what kine are."  --Woody Allen