Clayoquot Sound : The Last Battlefield (1993) - The Fifth Estate
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2017
- The summer of 1993 was a season of conflict in the ecological treasure chest that is the forests of Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island. Thousands of protesters blocked logging roads every day to stop loggers from cutting down old growth trees. When the forest industry decided it had lost too many battles to the environmentalists, it launched a sophisticated counter attack at the grassroots level. Trish Wood went behind the headlines at Clayoquot Sound to the industry's campaign for timber.
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Not one interview with one protestor? Great work CBC.
Lol it's the 90s, calm down. You could argue the reverse today. It's madness everyday and ever night. Not going to ignore those words.
this documentary doesn't need to show environmentalists, because it is highlighting that community led pro-logging initiatives are actually funded by logging companies. it also shows that these groups and loggers are manipulated into believing that environmentalists are the biggest threats to loggers livelihoods, when in reality jobs are decreasing due to industrial practices, and the jobs themselves will be made redundant by over-logging.
@@jadeblair548 theunafe not manipulated in a ridiculous manner....that's simply how they maneuver life madness ut still...
I wonder why.m.facebook.com/groups/bcloggers/permalink/4300420156686918/
@@jadeblair548 your really have no idea on the subject what so ever, the forest industry has never been in better shape. It the best I've seen it since the earlier 70s.
And here we sit now with only 2.7% of our old-growth forest remaining on Vancouver Island and the greed of man wants it all. Very sad!
Bullshit.
The area known as the fairy creek blockade was where I worked for Morris T. As a hatchery employee of 17 years.
During that time I had the displeasure of meeting many geologist and surveyors caught behind high winter water ( the rain which falls today takes 3 days to enter the rivers causing a high water line during high tide, Tha can bring water lvls up 120 feet...as it IS a delta ) and this is what they told me...
1) the roads were widened with tax payers money 7nder the lie of the commonwealth games ( extra traffic )
2) the salmon farms were placed with the expectation of infecting wild salmon, reducing numbers to lift water protection act all over BC ( once the fish are reduced in numbers the water protection act lifted, they can now float the big old growth trees to port.
3) each old growth tree is cut into 21 foot rounds, each round can be cut into 5- 9 boardroom tables for Chinese businesses which net over $500,000.00 each, each tree has between 10 and 25 × 21 foot rounds making them several million dollars off each old growth tree.
4) trees removed the real work can begin... underneath the old growth forest at fairy creek is the largest palladium, platinum and iridium deposits ever found in Canada.
Its never truly been about the trees or saving them for our provincial government. It has always been about mining these minerals.
5) you can't mine without water. All rivers and streams in this area are protected, or were at the time I worked there ( 1990's into 2005 ) it has ALWAYS been about the minerals.
You can't mine around the trees, so they are to be removed regardless what we want as citizens of BC.
I have contacted many news stations worldwide to share this information - no one has called me back or is willing to look at my evidence
This is our bc governments 30 year plan...they have million dollar rock crushing trucks with wheels as big as a house sitting waiting to be used in the mining of fairy creek.
All along the san Juan River from the patcheedat reserve to lizard lake is covered in black sand on both banks. To the untrained eye it looks like a bog fire had occured along both river banks for miles...this sand is washed down stream over millenia
There is a very high concentration of minerals within the black sand. Jarring this and sending to the surveyors office they have sent back numerous cheques of thousands of $$$ to miners I know personally - I have seen them with my own eyes.
Our government has sold the rights to mine this area years ago...spent the $ and now is being held to the contract or will be sued.
Even if we sll went there to protest, every man, woman and child in BC we still would not stop the rush to mine these minerals as they will increase canadas dollar value on a world market.
Its always been about the money
I'm kind of sad this didn't show the environmentalists from the movement more.
Thank you to everyone who went and protect the forests and thank u the cops who where kind and respective
its amazing that this actually documents a gaslighting lodging industry that admits that technology and mechanism is the true cause of the fall of small town BC community economy and forestry jobs loss, while “fighting” and getting corporate American big business ideas is rewarded and embraced the scapegoating and shutting down citizens (“environmentalist extremist”) who care about indigenous rights, the environment, and the economies that survive on a healthy untouched forest.
#SAVEFAIRYCREEK
Ah, the good old days ...
I was there
The “share movement” was the opposite of that.. what deplorable people.. The area now makes exponentially more $$ from tourism then logging ever could
No worries ...old earth passing away ...new arriving 😊
Interview everyone EXCEPT those that care about the old growth, those that were there protesting. Lol what a joke of a film.
Money trumps everything. The rich will always get there way
I cant wait until my dad cut downs every last tree in claqwuit sound because he promised me I could have the land after his company chops down the last tree! I'm gonna build the biggest Walmart theme park!!!
Must have been cold there.
To appease both groups is easy, for every tree cut down, require the logging companies to PLANT 2 trees.
by law for every tree harvested, 3 are planted in bc...
@@ZackMasters by law
Old-growth trees take a minimum of a hundred years many are over a thousand. That appeasement doesn't begin to match the destruction.
We plant over 250 million tree's a year in BC alone
@@7wildernessSpecialist log it replant it repeat.
With out logging and the logging roads the hippies would have no place to live
Lol what an inept person you are..
@@7wildernessSpecialist the truth hurts don't it?