ALL RIGHT, so the toes
on Vancouver Esland have
flexed their muscles, |
watched the footage of the
big rigs rolling down to

. Victoria, and conld [cei the
political ground shake.

Listening to Mikey Hardcore try-
ing to appease the 15,000 forest
industry workers and families who
amassed on the lawn in front of the
legislature, L had a moment of fee
ing sorry for him, but (hen he lapsed
into cheap ccofreak-bashing, and §
thought: serves him right.

As for the loggers, 1 wanted to
weep. Does the word “dupes” ring
any kind of a bell, guys?

Why aren’t you rolling down
Georgia Street to the headquarters
of MacMillan Bloedel, instead of
picking on litle Mikcy? There's

+ Where you should have gone. |

The convoy and march was a
moder media show of force com-
bined with old-fashioned clements
of siege taciics. Hey! Points to the

“ organizers! Whatever works.
I just find it hard to believe that
‘those loggers could be so blind to
the real causes of their dilemma, and
so utterly determined to put their
cwn immediate interests abead of
_ the future. =.

Well, mayve that’s not surpris-
ing. It is the story of humanity, isn’t
it? : :

But it did seem rather ironic for
“people in that crowd to be dragging
their kids along to the demonstra-
ition, since all the kids are going to
inherit are landscapes of stumps.
> There will be precious few jobs for,
them.

- Of course the workers are alraid
for their jobs, as well they should
be. Many, if not most of them, arc
hoping to be able to hang on untit
the house is paid off and they can
retire.

Unfortunately, their personal -
security comes at the cost of a per-

_;manently diminished ecosystem.
‘What is particularly sad to

“observe is that, even though the log-

gers have long been used and
- abused by their corporate masters,
all they seem to have done (as so
many oppressed people do) is iden-
tify with theix oppressors, and look
_ to them for guidance.

_) . Aiasge banner carried by the

: marchers in Victoria said: 12% NO
. MORE.

What they want is to clearcut i
Vancouver Island down to barely
_more than a 10th of its original for-
“estcover. | :

Oh gee, thanks guys! You'll
leave one ancient trec out of 10 for
” the rest of us to admire after you've
trashed everything cise.

And who said those are your ,
trees, anyway? We are talking about
Crown land that is supposed to be

‘held in trust for the entire citizenry,
and, presumably, the citizens of
tomorrow as well, nct just those
who stand to profit from exploita-

-Hon of publicly owaed resqurces
today. .

Surely there must be some fog-
gers out there who realize their way
of life is threatened in the long-term
anyway, because once the transna-
tional corporations like Mac-Bio
‘have removed the true capital of the
island communities — their old-
growth iogs — bottom-line boards
of directors will just shift invest-
ment dollars elsewhere, locating
modem new mills out of the region

. orout of the country entirely.
Moncy has no loyalty, for God’s
sake! It’s liquid. ;

The real enemy of the logge; is

machirery, not environmentalists. It -

has been automation of mills and
the introduction of enormous tree-
chomping equipment into the foresis
to replace the teams of laborers it
uscd to take to remove a single tree

STRICTLY PERSONAL

which has led to loss of jobs'so far.
in a word: technology, or indus-

uialization. That, and the export of
unprocessed logs. is what has kept
British Columbia in the position of a
shiny high-tech Third World banana
republic, over-dependent on mono-
cultuse crops and the sale of raw
materials,

’ Except, of course, our bananas

are 98) feet tall and they take hun-
dreds of years to grow.

‘This over-dependence on timber
has created huge profits for the log:
ging industry, but hasn't led to any
great prosperity in the dinher com-
munities, certaialy not in terms of
hew investment, at least until com-
panies are forced to clean up their
act.

The individual robber barons
who used to rule the B.C. woods
have, of course, long since been
teplsced by mega-corporations,
which, il turns out, are much more
dangerous to natural habitat because
their appetite swells to global pro-
portions.

In order to “remain competitive,
they ruin peaple’s lives by replacing
them with a mechanized half-robut
stumpmaker thal burns up energy al
a sae vou wouldn't believe,

‘The bottom line means a waste-
land of stumps after clearcutting. At
least, that’s the way it has to be.
according to the bean-counters,
whose calculators all come up with
the same figures. Except that the
conventional cost of clearcutting
does not reflect the actual cost of
timber production.

By just looking at the costs of

”

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

Public Meeting will be held on :
MONDAY, April 11, 1994, at:7:30 pm.,

in the Council
West I 4th Stre

Chamber, City Hall, 14]
et, North Vancouver,

B.C., to receive representations in
connection with the following:

" BRUNO AND TERESA AGOSTINO, 750 Vinedale Road,
North Vancouver, have applied for a Development
Variance Permit with respect to property legally described
as Lot 2, Resub 8, Block 11, D.L. 616, Plan 10823 located at
895 East 15th Street (as indicated in hatched pattern on the
map below) to permit the provisions of the "Parking Bylaw,

1991, No. 6149," Section 2.5.3.

follows: Limitation of access from an opened street shall be
varied to allow one driveway access of a maximum 12 feet

in width from Rufus Avenue.@

EAST 15TH STREET

APPLICANT: BRUNO &

the Municipal Act of British Columbia.

3. (1), to be varied as

planning a clearcut, building roads,
cutting and hauling {he trees to the
mill, and running the equipment, we
easily convince ourselves that
clearcutling is the cheapest, most
efficient route to go.

‘The trouble with a system of lim-
ber management based on these
kinds of calculations is that longs.
term costs are hidden or ignored,

ee
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roads which, sooner nuher than
later, result in damage to water sup-
plies, slope feilures, landstides, sil-
tation of waterways, loss of animal
and plant species,

Methinks the loggers protesting
in Victoria were barking up the
Wrongs tree,

SEN

cusTom
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Public Hearing 2 will be held on MONDAY, April Nh,
1994, at 7:30 p.m., in the Council Chamber, City Hall,.
141 West 14th Street; ‘North Vancouver, B.C., to receive
representations in connection with the following
proposed amendment to the “Zoning Map of the City of.

North Vancouver", which is an integral part of "Zo
also known as Bylaw No. 3778 o.

crossings. %

RUFUS AVENUE

TERESA AGOSTINO

UONSDALE AVENUE

CE

TT} ooo

Zoaing

To amend the "Zoning Map of the City of North Vancouver," which
forms part of Bylaw 3778, also known as "Zoning Bylaw, 1967," by’
reclassifying Lot A, resub 8, Block 18, D.L. 549, Plan 5042, located at
1712 Lonsdale Avenue (as indicated in hatched pattern on the map
below). The amending bylaw will have the effect of removing the said’
property.
FROM:
TO:

CS-2 (Service Station Commercial Zone)
CD-264 (Comprehensive Development
To permit development of an automatic car wash and wider driveway

264 Zone)

APPLICANT: IMPERIAL OIL/BEESLEY ENGINEERING

LL PERSONS who believe that their interest in properties is affected by the above proposed Rylaw and Permit
shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard - in person, by attorney or petition. The proposed Bylaw
and Permit and relevant background documents. may be inspected at the office of the City Clerk between 8:30
am and 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday, from March 28 - April 11, 1994, except Statutory Holidays. Written.
submissions will be accepted up to and including April 11, 1994, but submissions will NOT be accepted alter .
the conclusion of the Public Hearing. NOTICE of these Public Hearings are pursuant to Sections 5 980 & 9357 of

Bruce Hawkshaw, City Clerk