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Canada's Trade in
Left: Cedar log dump, Clayoquot Sound, |
Canada's commercial trade in vanishing Right: Giant Cedar Stump, Vancouver Island, 2010. |
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The Trashing of |
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By demolishing the
old growth cedar trees, the forest industry is trashing Indigenous Northwest
Coast heritage. |
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One of the most renowned of all Northwest Coast sculptures is the monumental "Raven" by
the Haida artist Bill Reid. He found it impossible in 1979 to find a
large enough yellow cedar tree and instead had to carve a laminated block.
It is ironic that while totem poles and Northwest Coast carvings perform
as international ambassadors for Canada, the commercial slaughter of
old growth cedar trees continues with no protest. |
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Left: Real Cedar logo of the Western Red Cedar Export Association. Red text added. The logo features a live green tree when in fact the wood products industry results in the death and extermination of ancient cedar trees. The powerful multinational wood products industry is entrenched in Canada and if the remaining remnants of ancient temperate rainforest are to survive, an international boycott of BC's shameful export of old growth cedar is needed. Instead the Western Red Cedar Export Association openly conducts its dirty trade with Belgium, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and other markets around the world. |
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The Unethical Flogging |
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Left: An ancient
yellow cedar tree, about 600 years old, destroyed in 2006 for wood
products. The yellow
cedar tree was cut down in the upper Walbran Forest on Vancouver
Island, on public land leased by a logging company. This rare biological
treasure could have lived for centuries more. |
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Right: The same ancient yellow cedar tree (seen above) was tracked to the
supply yard at Meeker Lumber and Errington Cedar Products on Vancouver
Island. Meeker Lumber is only one of hundreds of such companies dealing
with vanishing old growth cedar. In most cases these companies are
marketing the export of raw logs to Asia and the US, a practice endorsed
by the BC government. |
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Sacred Yellow Cedar |
Sacred Yellow Cedar |
Sacred Yellow Cedar |
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Sacred Yellow Cedar |
Sacred Yellow Cedar |
Sacred Yellow Cedar |
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Canada's
Shameful Export |
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Forest Industry Deception: |
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Fraserview Cedar Products: |
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"Export Clears" |
"Beauty" |
"Sustainability" |
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"Our Products" |
"Cedar Adds Value" |
"Environmentally Friendly" |
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Culprits in the Extermination |
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Left:
Old growth forest ruination on Vancouver Island by Macmillan
Bloedel. |
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Right: "Spear Flower," a giant self loading and self dumping log barge owned by Trans Pac Fibre Corp (Alcan). The photo is used as advertising on the corp's website. Red text added. Based in Vancouver, Trans pac specializes in log exports to Korea, China and Japan that are "high grade, and oversized (old growth)." The rapacious deforestation of BC for Asian markets is deplorable. There needs to be an international convention to protect local communities from being stripped of their resources by transnational corporations. In 2005 angry BC citizens, fed up with the endless export of raw logs, protested against the Spear Flower, the evil Black Ship, while it was being loaded in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. |
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Boycott members of the Western Red Cedar Lumber Association: Delta Cedar Products |
Service Affiliates: |
Canadian Mill Services Assoc. |
Boycott members of the Vancouver Island Association of Wood Processors: AON Reed Stenhouse |
Dove Creek Timber Sawmill |
Pacifica Reclaim |
Boycott members of the Western Red Cedar Export Association: Cedarshed Industries |
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