🚀 go-pugleaf

I agree with many of Eric's concerns listed in this note.

Perhaps because he is closer to the problem in that the existence of the
industry affects his economic outlook a lot more than it does mine, his
views of the causes for and remediation of the problem are not the same as
mine.

Forestry has been a political football in BC as long as there has been an
industry. The current "water bed" process is just another example of that.
Lets hope Campbell gets rid of the waterbed, which appears to be no more
than a mechanism that allows political favours in one area to be paid for by
the rest of the province. Did you know that lumber going into the Skena mill
was paying 25 cents a cubic metre stumpage, while lumber going into the
Carrier mills was paying $40. What a farce.

Brent

"Eric�" <Eric�@hardknocks.edu> wrote in message
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>
> I've never said that there are no problems with the way forestry
> is done in BC.  I have plenty.  I'm not paid by anyone
> to write anything here.  I'm not a Patrick Moore clone
> (I agree with plenty of things Moore says, but I recognize that
> Moore is fundamentally dishonest as he will only state
> what is acceptable to the BIG PLAYERS in the forest industry).
>
> No-one ever asked, but here's a partial list of my problems with the way
> forestry is done in BC (in no particular order).

Good list snipped.