STRICTLY PERSONAL IT’S AMAZING, watching the cycles. The Province recently launched into a Greenpeace-bashing orgy. Nothing new here. The first time’ I remember editorial writers at The Province knocking Greenpeace was back in 1971, . during the first voy- | age. Nearly z a quarter of a century. has come and gone, Greenpeace has _ grown from small, pious groups of " eco-activists gathering in living - rooins and church basements in ’ Vancouver and the North Shore to a genuine international force with an Ben Metcalfe as siying: “When f think back over the years of the Greenpewve story... the way we started itand the way itis today, | often see myself as a Kind of Dr. Frankenstein who created a monster that oow bas a life of its own.” The irony?) First, that a Vancouver-based paper would have ‘to wait fora chance to look ata tape of a Danish television show to get that quote, as opposed to phon- ing Ben up at any time over the past 20 years, and getting exactly the sume comment, Maybe the reason The Province didn t call Ben over all those years vas because they had spent so much energy bashing Greenpeace in the early years, especially during - the period when Ben Metcalfe was running things. There was something of a grudge-match between Metcalfe and Paddy Sherman, the former publisher, too obscure in its origins for me to fathom. Whatever the reason, Metcalfe and the editorial board at The Province lobbed insults back and _ forth during the period of impressive track record ‘on’ “both the . ‘anti-nuclear and biodiversity front Province, the, d rial writers : re ~ still shaking’ their heads and wag-, _ gang running editor: but it looks like the’ ‘their own files av Keep reading and over agi in “AS you rhight expect, the i irony “was purely’ accidental. :°” . Kieran‘quoted West Vancouver “raconteur, ‘and steelhead enthusiast Metcalfe's tenure as chaisman of the Greenpeace Foundation, between 1972 and 1974. Having come full circle, The . Province is now using Metcalfe to ‘bash Greenpeace. - As for Ben being described as _ the “B.C. founder” — what is -astounding to me ishow The Province can still keep getting the . Slory. wrong, even after, all these. ve “In his “exposé,” Kieran notes. ‘that the Danish documentary i in “which Bén’s angst is duly recorded “ot was put “together by Icelandic film- maker Magnus Gudmundsson. 2’ ~ What Kieran does not.mnention is “that Gudmiindsson: is the same film- inaker whose 1986 “documentary,” » Survival in the High North, was « wildly inaccurate:propaganda piece in defence of.the sealing; industry." .. In that documentary jewel,’ Gudmundsson accused Groenperce. - of fakirig scenes in which hai arp seal “pups. were being killed; especially oie scene in which’a mother seal chased after a dead pup, even after it had been skinned, while its car- y a Chicken Sandwich at the regular price and get a second Chicken Sandwich FREE! 3 aid Sandvich athe i. price and get a sec LE a _Gisken Sad FREE oe Please present this cou, ordering. Not valid with any other offer. No cash value, Applicable taxes payable by bearer. Valid only at partkipating Burger King* Restaurants. 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And colurmnist Kieran is barking up the wrong tree by pre- senting Gudmundsson’s work as being anything more than propa- ganda for the sealing and whaling interests, No surprise that Barry Clausen should turn up in Gudmundsson's documentary. Clausen is flogging an as-yet unpublished mianuscript about his days as a paid informer infiltrating Earth First! Hired by, logging and mining interests to hang out with the hard- core eco-freaks and find our what they're up to, Clausen mide the mind-boggling discovery that Earth Firsters circulate a book called KBcodeficase: A Field Guide to Monkey-Wreaching, Wow, whata scoop! The book Ecadefenve has been around since the "60s, I believe. As for the revelation that “half the people” Clausen worked with in Earth First! in the Seattle area were also members of Greenpeace, if anybody wanted to bother doing the legwork, fm sure they'd find out that these people were also mem- bers of the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund, the Audubon Society and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, to mention but a few other groups. Most environmentatists | know belong to or support more than one organization, AClast look, this stall wasn’t a crime. For all | know, there may be great exposés of Greenpeace buried Introducing eur exclusive, Interest Rate Protection Guarantee for your RRSP savings. |: ‘4 ae Open anew RRSP account * Transfer your existing RRSP.’ * Renew your current RRSP ...and you've got an assurance of the best rates for your savings... ‘S 3 Ma, “North Shore: Credit Union guarantees to meet the interest rates offered by the major chartered banks on the day you deposit. 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