“Silencing the Saws” The Death of the Forest Industry.
The following story should be considered of the highest priority for every employee of West Fraser Mills in Smithers, REPAP SMITHERS INC, Pacific Timber in Houston, Canfor in Houston, plus all logging contractors working in the Bulkley Valley. This should be a RED ARERT your jobs are about to go up in smoke thanks to the BC NDP.
Everyone who did benefit or will benefit or is benefiting from the Forest Industry needs to be here to set the NDP Straight.
The NDP working out of their basements have yet to appear to face British Columbia in the Legislature, and keep postponing accountability in the Legislature. Likewise this wish to slip Nathan Cullen’s plans into place, and pretend this was democracy in action.
Everyone needs to attend the NDP Community Hall, in Smithers between West Fraser Mills and Repap there are over 500 jobs at stake, not including all the goverment forestry workers, silviculture, tree planters, and those growing seedlings, closure would be a staggering blow to Smithers. (Note, we are calling the Smithers Old Church the NDP Community Hall, as the location is pretty much only used by the NDP and their eco radical environmentalist friends, who will likely be there applauding the death of the forest industry.
If they get away with this hideous plan, it will be the end of Smithers as you know it.
Everything will fall into one of two categories, it will either be Old Growth Forest or it will be aboriginal land that cannot be given out by our province.
The question is will the people of Smithers roll over and allow them to do this or will they show up in hundreds to let the NDP know enough is already too much?
Ravi Parmar, Minister of Forests has already indicated the new FLP is a joint collaboration of First Nations, BC Goverment and I have serious doubts they will do anything but tell us what they are going to do, not ask us what we want them to do. If that is indeed what they plan to do, we need to be there by the hundreds, to insure they comply with the wishes of local residents.
How did we get here? If you have the time read what the plan is, and note how they make use of statements, that become the backbone of their study, and did so without ever proving that the background study was even the truth, its pure manipulation to insure the outcome shows that the land belongs to people that never negotiated any land claims. Look at their attack on Conservative Governments in this study done by David J. Connell who works using taxpayer funded writing anti forestry and anti logging material for the NDP.
“In 2012, the property flooded for the first time. Soon after Chipeniuk and Sawchuck knew they needed to investigate the cause of the flood, they were sure it was due to the logging,”
Dr. Raymond Chipeniuk ” In 2014 Chipeniuk and Sawchuck launch a lawsuit against the Provincial Government and associated logging operations which lead to the flooding, seeking damages of $300,000, for ecological grief as well as the loss in property value. Finally, after nearly eight years, at the eleventh hour just before the trial was to begin, government lawyers handed Chipeniuk and Sawchuck’s attorney, Ian Lawson, a handwritten note agreeing to settle the case for what they were asking.”
Go figure he now works for the University of Northern British Columbia teaching our kids radical left wing ideology. “The University anticipates 62 per cent of its General Operating revenue from the Government of B.C” meaning you and me the taxpayers.
Dr. Raymond Chipeniuk also authored for the NDP Goverment the following RECOMMENDATION TO THE BRITISH COLUMBIA OLD COLUMBIA OLD GROWTH STRATEGIC REVIEW PANEL
The book is all about if forests are not old growth then they must be aboriginal forests, nothing is left for the people of this province, or the residents of the Bulkley Valley.
Case. Crown Lands in the Bulkley Valley is the chapter about us, but the entire book is a blueprint for what the NDP has in store for us. Beyond that this is what we are teaching the next generation of students who will run our forestry sector. His references are seriously questionable, almost all based on hearsay evidence from handpicked experts. Look at the references, its a very serious case of authorial bias.
PART TWO
Nathan Cullen may be no longer be elected but he most certainly is not gone, are the instructions to wipe out the industry itself, using the excuse of “reconciliation” as a ways and means to destroy the backbone of an industry that built this province. This is a must read if you want to save what is left of the industry. B.C. forestry industry is dealing with death by a thousand cuts. Let me quote the opening lines of that article.
Forestry has long been an anchor, if not the very backbone, of B.C.’s economy. Lumber, pulp and paper have typically been the province’s most valuable exports, and the sector a major employer in small town B.C. But lumber is no longer king, it seems, and B.C.’s forestry sector is shrinking at an alarming rate.
This death of a forest industry is the brainchild of SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, Terrace, BC & Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, Hazelton, BC
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How can anyone miss the new “WOKE” word “Carbon” in the title that is a tell all about where this is going?
I also want to say the names of these organizations are a smokescreen to protect those who made this “Silencing of the Saws” possible. They are as follows. Art Fredeen, Phil Burton, Wyatt Klopp, Jeff Werner, Dave Daust, Larry McCulloch, Paul Sanborn, Michelle Connolly, Tania Millen, Kesia Nagata, Sarah J. Railton, Richard Overstall, Jens Wieting, Len Vanderstar, Kenny Rabnett, and Brian Huntington for useful comments, edits, and ideas. Shannon McPhail, Tania Millen, and Greg Knox provided logistic support. Graphic design: Bachrach Communications. Missing from the list is Jim Pojar who is the mastermind of this thesis.
I cannot stress enough the importance of those who are behind this blueprint used by both Nathan Cullen and Taylor Bachrach. Everyone needs to Google each name above to see the personal reasons for killing the sawmill industry. Keep in mind that this was written in 2019
The following quote from B.C. forest sector prognosis becoming progressively grim. (November 2024)
Since the BC NDP came to power in 2017, the percentage of the AAC that is actually cut has fallen below 50 per cent, Schuetz said.
“The last few years, since the NDP came in and they started this more aggressive approach to reconciliation, and the different initiatives get to support that, we’ve harvested about 47 per cent of the annual cut, irrespective of the fact that lumber was US$1,600 (per thousand board feet) in the 2021 period,” Schuetz said. “We couldn’t recover with respect to our harvesting, for various reasons.”
I could not tell you the following without first pointing out that the pretense at public participation is a total farse by the replacement for Nathan Cullen not longer in control of forests and lands (at least on paper) So when Ravi Parmar, Minister of Forests says “To the residents in the Bulkey and Morice areas, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of forests in our province.” what he is hiding from you is that you are there to be introduced to decisions already made from a Minister who has never sat in the BC Legislature since he was appointed. It bears all the hallmarks of decision already made by Nathan Cullen.
In his announcement he states the following. “The FLP is being co-developed with First Nations, with input from communities, subject-matter experts and forest licensees. Three in-person open-house engagement sessions are planned so people can learn more about forest landscape planning and comment on the development of the Bulkley-Morice FLP.”
Sessions are scheduled for:
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025
Time: 1-3 p.m.
Location:
Granisle Senior Centre
Chapman Street
Granisle
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025
Time: 1-3 p.m.
Location:
Houston Community Hall
2302 Butler Ave.
Houston
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Time: 1-3 p.m.
Location:
Smithers Old Church AKA as the NDP Community Hall (to insure only a small number of people will fit)
3704 1 Ave.
Smithers
DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS
More from Ravi Parmar, Minister of Forests
FLPs are a new approach to forest stewardship that establish clear direction for the management of old-growth forests, biodiversity, ecosystem health, climate change, watershed health, wildfire risk and other forest-related values. They are developed in full partnership with First Nations.
The Bulkley-Morice FLP includes the participation of several First Nations, including the Cheslatta Carrier Nation, Gitxsan Nation, Lake Babine Nation, Witset First Nation, the Office of Wet’suwet’en and the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. The goal is to create a plan that will:
manage the values placed on forest ecosystems by First Nations;
support the protection and conservation of the environment;
support production and supply of timber in the forest landscape area;
manage the values placed on ecosystems by local communities; and
prevent, mitigate and adapt to impacts caused by significant disturbances to forests and forest health.
To date more than 50% of the industry was killed under the pretense that it was about giving aboriginals their fair share of the industry, however none of that ever happened,not one aboriginal sawmill opened, so the only people who got what they want is the environmentalists funded by the Tides Foundation, the same jackasses that refused to allow the First nation people. the right to control their own lands.
This NDP agenda has nothing to do with providing aboriginals with equal opportunity, but has everything to do with using First Nations to support extremist Tides funded organizations.