-A4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Octaber 11, 1995

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Help needed

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT would be

: doing a goad thing if it added a financial: boost to
- an employment training program.
“Tt’s called the Forest Worker Development Pro-
. gram and the idea is to provide people now on
: social assistance with the ‘appropriate | skills to
- tend. the forests of tomorrow.

_: Paid for by. the social services ministry and the
- forest service, this program has been operating
_ for-three years, Its goal is worthy — instead of
: having. people depend upon the state, why not
_ give them the skills to take part in intensive
- forestry. This is a. growing part of the new-age
_ forest-industry as more and more emphasis is
: being placed on growing and tending trees.
 ..The program already. has three. Stages. of worker
. preparation. As. ‘training and experience grow,
- workers are expected to come closer to perform-
. ing at silviculture contract specifications.

: But there’s a gap between what’s possible once
. workers ‘have graduated from the program and
- what’s necessary to continue on to self employ-
“ ment. ©.

And: ‘that gap, plain and simple, is money.

~_ Without adequate capital workers who wish’ to.

. form their own small companies can’t take that
- next step to forming their own businesses.

_” We're not talking a lot of moncy here. Certain-
' dy not -the kind of dollars governments have
chucked at other programs in the faint hope
something will stick. And certainly not the
- several billion dollars that will be flowing to the
: lower mainland to build all those fancy transit
: systems.

_ Instead -we’re talking about chainsaws, safety |
equipment, hand tools and fire fighting equip- |

a ment. Call it the meat and potatoes of working in
- the woods as opposed to the filet mi gnon of heh
falutin hi tech.

§ with adequate and standard provisions. for
: ray ack. Setting up such.a system would recog-
the talents. of those who graduate from the
. program. And it would. also secure the invest-

_ ment provided to establish the program in: the
first ‘Place.

eg. to Orenda Forest Products.
+. The company has now accepted a new forest

S licence from the provincial government but so.

_ far hasn’t seen fit to give its viewpoint.

To be sure the company has faced its fair share

- of problems in trying fullfil its licence obliga-

: tions of building or providing a processing facil-

ity for the wood it logs.

But the company is using a public resource and

therefore does have an obligation to respond

- when asked to do so.

What makes Orenda’s reluctance puzzling is

' that’. Orenda chairman Hugh Cooper had no
trouble last month in blaming the provincial

: government for a failed merger bid this Past.

’ Spring.

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Gov't refutes forest report

VICTORIA _
RECENT report by ize
Waterhouse, which stated that
as a result of the NDP govern-
tuent’s forestry policies, the
bottom will fall out of the
forest industry, has prompted
swift reaction from’. govern-
ment and the environmental
movement,

Speaking to IWA members
in Prince George recently,
.Premier Harcourt’ said the
Teport got the government's at-
tention, all right, because it
“came from way out in right
field.’? The report, the premier
said was so distorted that it
could only be meant to scare
people.

“This report forgets the new
-direct forestry jobs created in

_, the last four years. It glosses
over any benefit from the ac-’

_.tions we've take. and counts
only the costs, like a bank ma-
_ chine that only registers with-
drawals and doesn’t count the
deposits.’”
- The report, commissioned by

. the industry-funded Forest Al-

liance, Harcourt said, proved
‘beyond ‘4 doubt that ihe indus-

ty giants want the keys to the .
, forests back, so they can con- ©

‘tinue to satisfy their sharehold-
- ers at the expense of the forests
‘and the communities they
_ sustain.

And just in case the IWA
members might want to side

FROM. THE CAPITAL

HUBERT BEYER

“with the companies which,

after all, employ them, Har-
court went into election
campaign mode, reminding
them that when the chips are

_ down, they can "t depend on the

: ‘companies. -

weeeYour-; ~

- through wrenching --changes.
. People. were losing ‘their jobs

« qnéinBers weht

by the thousands. Laid-off

_ neighbours had to pull up
stakes:‘and move, tearing their:

kids out. of school ‘and. away
‘from. their. friends. And you

: never knew. if your job was

going to be next.

“I remember when the

Chemainus mill went down.
Five hundred people lost their
jobs. And the forest minister of
the day shrugged and said, it’s
not an issue, There’s nothing
government can do.

**Profit was the sole sacred

SIV ON
ISAT A'NON' “P

principle shared by Howe
Street and the Socreds. And in
the name of profit, your mem-
bers could be sacrificed,” he
added, .

‘Meanwhile, from Rick Care-

less of the World Wildlife

Fund's’ B.C. Endangered

Spaces group, came a quick

reminder that even with the ad-

_{ (vances in value-added forest

products during the past few
years, British Columbia still
gets fewer jobs per tree than
any other jurisdiction in North
America,

Heré are the figures: British
Columbia gets one job per
1,000 cubic metres of timber.
By comparison, the rest of
Canada gets 2.5 jobs for the
same amount of wood. In Cali-
ute ofigure..é

4 of the,

‘ages | 10. squeeze 3,4 | jobs out o of
every: 1,000 cubic metres ‘of

wood, ;

Carcless says the number one
threat to forest jobs remains
over-cutting, and not improved
forest practices and land use
plans.

Forest companies have been
over-cutting our forests for too
many ‘years. Ministry of
Forests figures show that since
1984, British Columbia has
been cutting down trees 25 per
cent faster than the forests can
Teprow, says Careless,

Keep in mind that Careless is

anytling but a fringe environ-

_ mentalist. While other environ-

mental organizations kept.
snapping at the government’s
heels for not doing enough to
protect old-growth forests, it
was his group that gave British
Columbia top marks for its
protected areas strategy.

Careless points out that even
the forest companies, after a
fashion, admit the new Forest
Practices Code will create jobs.

“‘They’ve been complaining
about the Code driving up
driving up their labour costs
because they have to hire more
people,’” he says.

If British Columbia’s forests
are to be put on a sustainable
basis, Careless says, com--
munities dependent on forestry
can’t look to the multi-national
companies for help, To back

“up that. charge, he quoted’ ‘a
- statement by * Bob Findlay,
- chief execulive officer of Mac-

Millan Blocdel in Canadian
Business inJuly 1991;
 “Bluntly, there isn’t any pos-
sibilily of (M&B) expansion in
British Columbia,, When we
make large investments, we'll
put them-where we can get the
best retura. That’s not in Brit-
ish Columbia and it’s probably
not in Canada,

Beyer, can be reached at:
Tel:(604) 360-6442;
Frax:(604) 383- 6783;E- Mail:
hbe yer@airect. ca

This activity is in the bag

A BARNEY BAG is an ideal
gift for any kid.

‘‘What’s a Barney bag?” !
asked, before I became overl;'
familiar with Bamey, the pur-
ple dinosaur, and his TV
troupe. :

A..Barney bag holds a
treasure of oddments kids can
use in imaginative ways to
create all sorts of results. Paper
and crayons become pictures
or family greeting cards. But-
tons are threaded into ‘trains,
necklaces, bracelets, Dried
pasta glued to.empty jam jars
makes. attractive vases for
roadside bouquets,

The bag can be any size,
shape, or material, so long as
it’s big and rugged. It will be
dragged along the carpet, hung
from doorknobs, and crammed
with pokey objects. Special
Barney bags are lovingly sewn
from felt or denim, appliquéed
with the child’s initials, jazzed
up with quilted flowers or pup-
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Contents of the bag can be
topped up with things that
would otherwise be garbage:
Retum envelopes with glue un-
licked, Shirt cardboards, Mag-
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| Sheets of perforated stamps

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Recycling is a key source of

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it notes, coil notebooks, paint-
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(he Barney bag is a rainy day
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gesting new ways lo combine
basic supplies to yield innova-
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Kids don’t oulgrow Bamey

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Same assorlment of supplies
depending upon their crafting
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the particular abilities of any —
adult leading thelr artistic ac-
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Single item doesn't sideline the
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