JLRosso at aol.com writes:
> I am continuing my efforts to understand I 640 the Gillnet ban. I
> talked to a former fisherman who claimed that big industry has an
> interest in seeing the commercial fisheries damaged because this
> would take out a big voice that calls for protection of the
> forest habitats.

This post is not directly related to this message, but it reminds
of a movie I saw last week at the Vancouver International Film Festival,
and that I recommend that environmentalist should see it.
The name of the documentary is "Bones of the Forest" by Heather Frise and
Velcrow Ripper, and it is about the devastation caused by the logging
industry in B.C., or anywhere else for that matter, not only in the PNW :-(


A lot of information, (almost) none of them really good news, as you
might expect, though...
One thing I found particularly interesting was the fact that the B.C.
forest industry has hired a PRing company to counteract the "propaganda"
of all these liberal, utopian environmentalists.
The funny (?) thing though is that this PRing company has also worked for:
- US Army,
- the company running Three Mile Island's nuclear plant a few years ago,
- Union Carbide, after Bohpal's blast,
- Exxon (maybe you heard about Exxon Valdez...)

That's amazing that BC forest industry would hire these guies whereas every
body knows that logging in the PNW is done in a sustainable manner... :-)


The movie doesn't show anymore now, but it will be shown and discussed in
many BC towns (including some small towns with a lot of loggers ...) in the
coming months. It is also supposed to show in other places in the Northwest
Pacific, so watch out...

If you want more information about this movie, check
http://viff.org/cgi-bin/viff_node.cgi?key+BONES

Sorry for this (yea another) off-topic post, but I was really moved
by this movie (no pun intended).


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