Category Archives: Forestry

(August 29, 2000) The great battle to preserve Canada’s environment took another drubbing last week. The loser this time was old- growth forest in British Columbia’s Clayoquot Sound, where the chainsaws whirred while the victors — a species of environmentalists known as envirocrats — cheered them on. “We have changed,” enthused Adriane Carr of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, a fine specimen of the mutated environmentalist. “We realize there can be a mixed economy here.” Continue reading →

Owners of forested land throughout Alberta — from the largest multinational forest company to the individual woodlot owner — won’t be getting a property tax break this year, all because of the province’s stubborn small woodlot owners. These smallholders could have signed onto a plan to turn their private “unmanaged” forests into government-certified managed forests, as other stakeholders wanted, and pocketed the money. The smallholders just couldn’t bring themselves to do so. Continue reading →

(April 4, 2000) It’s not free trade our lumber companies want, it’s free trees. The rugged individualists attending the Canadian Lumbermen’s Association convention in Montreal earlier this year must have welled up with pride. Continue reading →

(March 21, 2000) The eco-extremists are poised to win their biggest battle yet over British Columbia’s vast forest lands. But the eco-extremists aren’t environmental groups. The extremists are the B.C. government and major forestry companies who are hell-bent on destroying the splendour of the province’s landscape, even if they must do so at a loss. Continue reading →

(November 16, 1999) The World Wildlife Fund and other environmental elites — in a confused bargain with their government and industry counterparts — are selling out Canada’s environment to industrial interests. Continue reading →