Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba It if guaranteed investment certificates 1vear Standard 241 Portage Trust 9433874 Winnipeg free april 199o pages 1926 news review is British Columbia turning into the Brazil of the North by Timothy Egan times news service British biggest Trees in some More than 300 feet cling to the spongy Depths of the Forest floor in the Carmana Valley just North of they were ignored for but now the Sitka Spruce in the isolated Basin Are being treated like the last Bison herds of the As on the Side of the All but a handful of the valleys Here in North americas Only temperate rain Forest have lost their original tree cover to the Advance of until the fight Over the Swath of ancient evergreens hugging the Pacific had been fought mainly in Washington and but the Battle has moved As massive logging at an Ever faster Pace has Cut up the Canadian Domain of thousand Dearold Cedars and towering British Columbia has been accused of waste Ana hundreds of thousands of acres of the old growth forests have never been which has prompted some Forest ecologists to Label British Columbia the Brazil of the off limits in the United a Federal panel recommended last week that up to million acres of National Forest land in Oregon and California be off limits to the recommendation was part of an assessment of the effect of logging on the spotted which requires extensive old growth but in the Battle is just i Tell my Guys if they see a spotted owl to shoot Jack Canadian president of the International woodworkers of which represents last after years of protests by environmentalists and threats by Mill owners to shut Down plants if tree cutting is the British Columbia government of Premier William Vander Zalm decided to allow logging in half the Carmana while setting aside the other half As a the land is publicly but logging rights were sold Long in making the government officials lashed out at some from As far away As new zealand and who had urged preservation of what is left of Canadas once vast rain in British Timber companies Cut nearly acres last More than was logged in All the National forests of the United nowhere have the Woods been so depleted As on Vancouver where Miles appear a stump land where 250foothigh Trees used to the Carmana a relatively Small breach in the West Side of Vancouver has become the Symbol of resistance to the oldest and most dominant Industry in Western preserving even half the which holds the worlds biggest Spruce would Cost several Hundred Industry officials outraged but even some alarmed by a loss of both Trees and say they Are outraged by the Overall Pace of tree cutting in the the world is going to need our and we just Arent managing it said Munro of the loggers most of the old growth Trees have been Cut from the so now the pressure is on British columbian Economy is creating nearly half of All the new jobs in Canada last and polls show a majority of the provinces 3 million people want new restrictions on were witnessing a very Radical change in the Way the Public views Forest said John the chief forester for British in the Good old there was lots of room to he the province was still being now the Timber Supply has what has he is that the coastal evergreens Are now considered to be part of a Forest of global As North american political leaders have criticized tropical the shearing of this continents temperate rain Forest has provoked cries of hypocrisy and no matter How Many Trees Are planted to replace foresters say it will be impossible to duplicate the network of and Sitka Spruce that support one of the richest ecosystems on they Are cutting these coastal old growth Trees at a rate that simply cannot be said Peter a forestry professor at the University of British Columbia who headed a Royal commission on this Forest is unique in All the and it is diminishing in the same sense that tropical forests Are recent debate has centred on the environmental value of the ancient the Trees wring moisture from the Clouds and help keep the coastal climate when Large sections Are levelled and the debris is burned a practice known As Clear cutting and slash burning it can cause flooding in the air pollution in the and May contribute to global according to forestry Canadian logging practices Are wide in the United for clearcut in the National forests Are limited to 40 but in Canada there is no such Peter president of the Sierra club of Western said Canadian Timber companies Are plundering the province in a race to Cut Wood while prices remain at an Al time pollution Low priority for poor nations Washington third world countries have a radically different perspective on environmental Protection questions from advanced Industrial states like a Point that was scarcely dealt with at this weeks International conference on Cli mate arranged by the Bush and East european states staggering out from under the Bur Den of inefficient communist com Mand economies have a different current reality and Short term future the Bush administration invited some of the larger third world so their views were Avail since the administrations game plan for the conference was to muzzle talk of global put the attention on the need for More research about global while presenting an image of dynamism that owed More to Public relations than re there was Little time to hear third world this was a since Many problems associated with the International discussion of growing atmospheric Levels of Carbon dioxide and of other substances such As chlorofluorocarbons rfcs can be dealt with Only if every country on the planet is marching in the same example the Road from Cairns Airport into the City is a dramatic exam ple of the divergence Between Rich and poor countries on the Issue of Industrial it is lined with factories of varying belching thick Black smoke or the innocent looking White or nearly colourless smoke that Means toxic chemicals Are Proba Bly canadians look at this and see dirty they think of health problems and a lowered Quality David Macdonald Washington editor of life for egyptians look at it and see economic wages to keep families above starvation they make the fair Point that building their Economy is today while pure soil and water Are luxuries and tomorrows Poland Deputy prime minis Jan put the prob Lem in Concrete financial terms during his address to the Confer a scientist and he said that dramatic reductions in the pollution caused by steel production Are possible costly it is but very he the Cost of special equipment to protect the environment constitutes approximately 25 per cent of the total costs involved in the technological process of steel Poland ruined Economy meant that we Are not Able at this moment to take up our obligations to reduce Carbon dioxide although it is one of his governments major he said the concept of swapping debt for environmental which has already happened in Costa for sex would be of significant importance to Indonesia minister of state for research and Bac Ruddin Jusuf also referred to financial while speaking to a in see third Page 26 a photo return to Romania a scary adventure Bucharest woman Cooks on electric heating by George Dewan new Day in the late morning of last the Day the dicta Tor Nicolae Ceausescu was executed by the provisional gov Viorel Florescu Rode from the Eastern Border of Hungary Back into his native 10 years after he took his wife and son into while his equipment identified him As a photographer for news the 40yearold Flores us emotions were those of a Man coming once we crossed the everything was right at the Edge of laugh and there were people All they were but with a Frozen it was it Felt great to see them jumping around and we Are free but they were scared at the same i had to make an agreement with my wife before i she told if you you have to take extra Luggage with she just stuffed it with All kinds of food and cig to give that was exactly Christmas i was just in the and any place we saw any we just passed out unlike the More peaceful Politi Cal revolutions that have been Tak ing place in East Germany and other Warsaw pact it took violence to overthrow the reactionary stalinism of the Ceausescu Florescu said that he saw his first casualties right after Christ when he and new Day reporter Susan Sachs reached brutal repression of protests there see people Page 26 housing development divides Council Fri cuke by ecu Glenn free press by Janet Mcfarland the fight at City Hall Over the proposed Lin Den Ridge housing subdivision is quickly becoming a philosophical clash Over widely diverse philosophies of suburban growth and land although probably months before any decision will be councillors Are moving into Battle Posi sharpening their arguments and practising the political defence of dismissing an opponents position As even in past the 195lot subdivision would have been but would Likely have passed Council with few major this the proposal must Garner support from a coun cil with More critics of develop ment who Are eager to test the Powers they began to discover unexpectedly during the cites budget debate in Linden Ridge is the first major subdivision application since Reform minded including eight members of Winnipeg in the nine were elected last win who ran on a platform opposing unchecked sub Urban have embraced Lin Den Ridge and Are using their majority on the cites planning com Mittee to study and debate land development using Linden Ridge As a councillors Are studying the Poten tial financial costs to die the demand for residentially zoned see boosters Page 26 a fight is brewing Over Linden Ridge i i ;