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“The environmentalists come in and start waving placards and
blockading logging operations.”“You could use the threat of
the fact that you were going to start targeting a company to get the CEO into
the room pretty quickly and early on.”“We were making
decisions about publicly owned land, and the model in those days was
‘We’re the government, we’re the landlord, we own the land.
You’re the company, when we say log, you log,’ and ‘How dare
you make these decisions about publicly owned
resources?’ ”“We’re being pressured to adopt the
handbook and we’re saying we never did adopt the handbook. The [planning]
tables never did.” |
“A number of pivotal issues needed to be resolved. We’re being
told by the LRMP folk you can’t deal with them
here.”“We lost our charitable status when a BC politician
went gunning for us because of what we were doing in the forests of
BC.”“You had this ENGO/forestry side table which was kind of
doing all the major deals away from the table and just
reporting.”“Because over the time of this project there were
significant cases and legal decisions that got made and every time they got made
around First Nations it actually strengthened the relationship requirement with
First Nations.” |
“If you’re trying to get a company to shift, you are actually
not the decision maker so there’s an inherent imbalance
there.”“All of a sudden people weren’t playing their
role, their appropriate designated historical role, and there was role
confusion.”“And then the local communities got really mad
there was an angry coalition...they were the north island communities where a
lot of the loggers would come from...and they said how dare you do this and
affect our employment.” “Everybody was also looking for the
stakeholders, and specifically industry and the ENGOs, to support the final
outcome.” |
“A number of businesses, certainly on Vancouver Island and up the
coast, became Greenpeace- free zones and there was a period of about a year that
Greenpeace was called the enemy of the province by the premier at the
time.”“This whole issue of how you manage a commercial
forest for biodiversity was kind of bursting into bloom. It was one of the
flowers from Clayoquot.”“One way to change attitudes is when
everybody’s back is up against the wall.” |