Posted by unregistered user: Say What ?
Hey Al
The tone and basis of your position is not so thinly disguised racism. Land claims in B.C. were “settled” at the point of a gun, by government supplied alcoholism, family break-ups through abusive religion, and European diseases.
The settlement “process” costs the governments more in legal fees and stalling than what a settlement would cost,(but it does employ lawyers, politicians, and government employees. So don’t talk like you know anything about the treaty process- you do not.
The real question is- what will Tolko gain by lying about their wood supply (the Armstrong mill is full of logs- yet they claim they cannot run because they are out of logs)! The province is mired in unsaleable bug-killed pine, so why is Brown Creek so necessary ? Maybe it’s not the OIB, maybe someone else is looking for a big government payday, on the pretext of a fight with the OIB.
It costs the provincial government $600 million to run the forest service in exchange for $350 million in stumpage, so are you going to try to tell me that standing timber in Brown has any value at all ??
Something, my friend, is rotten in Denmark.