Pipeline jobs vs forestry

[maryjane48]

30,000 BC forest workers lost their jobs and over 70 mills were shut down under the BC Liberals, yet they've allowed companies to cut at near record levels,” stated Arnold Bercov, national forestry officer of the Pulp, Paper, and Woodworkers of Canada. “Under the BC Liberals, we lost both our forests and our jobs“

To efficiently manufacture the second-growth component of the harvest, 11 to 14 large mills will be needed.” Today, more than a decade later, there is only one large and a handful of smaller second-growth mills on the coast.

http://www.ancientforestalliance.org/ne ... php?ID=653


so the question is , why is oil and gas workers more important than forestry workers ? when campbell and now clark are cutting all these forestry jobs , the right is silent and in some cases cheering for the mills to close .

where is the they need to keep working to chants? should we be demanding these jobs saved and brought back also?

[w84u2]

Many people were caught by surprise when West Fraser and Canfor announced mill shutdowns in October. But Bob Simpson says they shouldn't be: he warned government this was coming.

The former New Democratic Party-turned-independent MLA showed the B.C. legislature leaked cabinet documents in 2012 that said because of the increase in annual allowable cuts to capture pine beetle-destroyed wood, cut levels would have to be brought back down soon since most of that wood was gone.

With less wood to process, massive mill shutdowns were expected to begin in the province within 18 months. Eighteen months later Canfor and West Fraser announced they were closing their mills in Quesnel and Houston, respectively, and swapping forest licenses to keep remaining mills profitable.

[Pat-Taporter]

Employment challenges south of the border too.

I wonder what the effect from this could be up here?

Americans react to softwood lumber dispute

Waterloo Chronicle

Dec 05, 2016

http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news-st ... r-dispute/

MONTREAL — The imposition of import tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber will place a heavy burden on consumers and U.S. workers, a leading American voice for free trade with Canada says.

The U.S. National Association of Home Builders says duties or volume caps on imported lumber will raise the price of lumber, adding more than $1,300 to the cost of a new single family home.

It also forecasts higher lumber prices will result in a net loss of almost 8,000 jobs if 25 per cent of duties are imposed on Canadian lumber flowing into the U.S. About US$450 million in wages would be lost along with US$320 million in government taxes.

The impact would mainly be felt by the construction industry, but also hit other sectors including mattress firms that use Canadian lumber in bed frames, transportation, finance, insurance and real estate.

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[w84u2]

True that. It would not be good for us.

[Pat-Taporter]

True that. It would not be good for us.

Meaning worse?

[w84u2]

Much worse.

[TylerM4]

It's pretty bad when it's cheaper to ship logs to china, then ship back the finished lumber. Rather than mill it within the country.

[Pat-Taporter]

Same thing with oil. We export it from the West to the Sates. And then import some of it back into to Eastern Canada as refined.

[twobits]

It's pretty bad when it's cheaper to ship logs to china, then ship back the finished lumber. Rather than mill it within the country.

Typical left wing brainwashing. No verification. Just some article written by a hippie writing for the Tyee.

As to the OP, the answer is we happen to have oil and gas that other people want and not as many trees to harvest unless you would like to see a scorched earth forest. Something makes me think you have bycthed in other threads about clearcuts.