Forest Companies were feeling the heat of repeated attacks by ENGO's.
Forest Companies were going beyond the expectations of Kyoto and could not see why they were being trashed nationally and internationally. Of course they gave up and now we have "The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement of May 18th, 2010". and any company who does not belong to that agreement and become FSC certified, is still fair game for the trashing.
17 Jun 2010... Betty Jean Brill of Nipigon, Ontario gets it (Letter to Ontario Minister of Forests ...
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1 Nov 2010 ... By: Betty Brill, Nipigon, ON. Attached is another letter to ...
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Milking stools come in three configurations. There is a one-legged contraption that belts on. When you stand up you have a unicorn's horn protruding from your derriere. It's great for uneven ground but won't stand alone if you leave it. There is a two-legged bench type that is the heaviest type but it needs a level surface in order to stand alone. The most common stool is the three-legged. It will settle in comfortably nearly anywhere and when left by itself after milking, it will remain in the upright position. If we give these legs identities of the values of - forest sustainability, environment, and socio-economic - we can see how easy it is to fall off if the legs are not equal in length.
On January 26, 2007, The Conference Board of Canada reported on its three year research program. It called for "sweeping renewals in the pulp and paper sector: governments must work with industry to agree on small mill closures and investments in larger, more technologically advanced mills." Is it any wonder 44 mills closed across Canada in 2005? Dozens more closed in 2006. The gate is open.
In 1983 Brian Mulroney made a statement in Thunder Bay comparing U.S. Free Trade to an elephant that would roll over in times of economic depression..." they're going to crank up the plants in Georgia and North Carolina and Ohio and they're going to be shutting down here." I think the cow has already left that stall.
In January, 2007, a thirty-six year old busy-body named Greenpeace, started a campaign in the province of Quebec for a moratorium on logging in intact areas of the Boreal Forest. In November 2006, CPAWS had called for a halt to ALL Ontario logging in Woodland Caribou range. Cows that don't get milked regularly can get sick.
In February, 2007, the Boreal 'farmers' , The Forest Products Association of Canada, (FPAC), released their first sustainability report. They measured their members' progress using the three- legged stool. They have surpassed the Kyoto Protocol Greenhouse Gas Emissions reductions seven times over, reaching 44% reduction by 'retooling' and switching to renewable energy including biomass. Their production has increased 20%. They didn't wait for regulations to come in, they did what made sense. These 'farmers' are responsible for over 96 million hectares of certified forestland. It sounds like the milk is on its way to the dairy.
Along comes a young teenager from San Francisco, ForestEthics, and kicks over that bucket of milk, yells at the 'farmer' for putting it there. So much for the Greenhouse Gas Emissions reduction, ForestEthics says logging in Canada releases 180 million tons of carbon per year. Now here's where that 'farmer' should take that rascal out behind the barn.
When a tree is cut it does not release its stored carbon unless it rots or burns. If it is utilized as lumber, furniture, baseball bats or toothpicks etc. it can retain its carbon for hundreds of years. Even paper products will hold a carbon content.
A young growing forest uses carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A growing tree does not hold its breath so a certain amount of carbon dioxide is exhaled. Scientists have calculated how much carbon dioxide a certain area of forest will consume from the atmosphere, becoming a carbon sink. If that forest burns it just gives back what it took out. This is as close as I can come to rationalizing why those environmental groups aren't out there fighting those horrendous forest fires that are consuming our valuable timber every year - those same forest fires that truly destroy wildlife habitat and bird's nest.
The perfect socio-economic environmental stool, sit on it!
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