STRICTLY PERSONAL IN MOST cases of public disputes, I’m far enough removed personaily from the players so that it is easy io make smart remarks. indeed, in journalism, one con- sciously maintains a distance from the people you write about. But every once in a while, despite your best intentions, you become friends with people you started off meeting ina profes- sional contex Dr. Patrick Moore and | are friends like that, plus having gone through a few life-changes and eco-battles together, Dr. Beaver, as we used to call hira, because he is the son of a logger, was deeply invoived in try: ing to stem the tide of ecologicat collapse for decades. + He has been known to hoist his butt into a helicopter and whizz out against terrifying odds over broken ice-floes to try to save seal pups. He faced gale- force winds in the Gulf of Alaska, trying to stop nuclear testing, and was there in the front lines for the whales and in the campaign to keep super- tankers out of Puget Sound. He's a veteran, Yet the en- vironmental movement is outraged with Pat Moore these days. He has gone to work for the other side, or at least that part of the ‘other side’’ which is repre- sented by Adam Zimmerman of Noranda and Jack Munro of the International: Woodworkers of ' America, two of the heavyweights of the clearcut set, As chairman of the Forest Practises Committee of the B.C. Forest Alliance, and a member of the alliance’s board, Moore is ina position to take a chainsaw to the save-the-old-growth groups which, until now, have pretty much had a public relations field ay. . Dr. Moore-Or-Less, as Moore is also known to his friends and foes alike, is a veteran of many a bitter, scorched-earth internal po- litical war from his days in Greenpeace, one of the most frac- tious organizations around, and, of course, along the way he learn- ed quite a bit about how to cope with the media, as well as acquir- ing skills in dealing with govern- ments and bureaucracies. It was Moore who recently earned the fury of Monte Hum- mel, president of the World Wildlife Fund Canada, by publishing a blistering attack on the WWF's report titled Forests In Trouble: A Review. of the Status of Temperate Forests Worldwide, for which Hummel had to take responsibility in Canada. Only three pages of the global report dealt with Canada, offering a ‘‘case study” of wholesale forest destruction, but Moore reached into his bag of tricks as an inter- disciplinary ecologist, and came up with 27 paints of criticism, prompting Hummel to fire offa 16-page single-spaced rebuttal in which he pointed out that “‘like it or not Canada has the largest clearcuts in the world,”* and stuck to his guns on all but a few E THINKING OP SELLING? RRB. GNAVE CLEMENT. | Bringing Call Dave Clement fora gi" | "Your Service Specialist” people together- oints, which he grudgingly con- . ceded. brucemnesy gf today and receive up to Reading over Moore's charges 4 2 FREE SKI LIFT TICKETS and the WWF's reply, it is clear . Moore janded a couple of good # - with no obligations. axe-blows. 7 ‘(eertain conditions Jo apply, call for more details, Toa layman, this stuff might : seem like academic hair-splitting, but in the highly charged at- mosphere of the battle over B.C.’s forests, it all counts, especially since it comes down to an attack on the prestigious WWF's credi- bility. The international president of the WWF, you may recall, is His Royal Highness Prince Philip. Moore’s more damaging criti- cism was that the ‘‘case study’’ was based on a narrow range of sources, with the emphasis on non-government sources, meaning like-minded environmental and conservation groups, while paying litle attention to the studies by official agencies. Hummel had to ‘‘agree that our concern would have been strengthened by including citations | froma broader constituency of stakeholders." On balance, in my view, there is no doubt that the weight of the — argument remains in the WWF's favor, numely that not enough is being done to preserve the biolog- ical diversity of B.C.’s forests or save the old-growth rainforest. It wasn't, of course, just that the WWF's calculations and claims were being challenged, they were being challenged by a former high-profile head of Greenpeace. Is Moore exploiting his background, his training, his ex- perience? For sure. This is legal, however, And Moore has a family to FREE MARKET EVALUATION. |.48°° | O: 984-9711 § Wi Rens ¥| 925-3003 F building better communities... AL Tp Sitar NO INTEREST NO PAYMENT until AUGUST 1993+ support, just like sa many of the é . 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