...are just the sound of the forest products industries suckin' on politicians for some taxpayer cash.
The Working Forest newspaper has published a story titled "Developing innovative uses for pulp by-product". The article, penned by Michael B. Humble (eye roll), for some strange reason failed to mention that the exciting new venture between FP Innovations and West Fraser to extract lignin from wood pulp for purportedly useful purposes is being bankrolled by the Canadian Taxpayer to the tune of $10 million.
This is our so called Conservative Harper government eagerly sending truckloads of our money to blackmailers. A few years ago AbitibiBowater mill in Fort Frances got $22.5 million from Harper for bioenergy development. A few years later and it is whining for more http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/4960338-ndp-says-1-000-jobs-at-risk-in-fort-frances/
ReplyDeleteForest resource extraction used to mean turning green pulp into paper but now it means turning green paper into pulp fiction.
You trying to put my blood pressure through the roof Shawn you just keep mentioning the West Fraser mill here in Hinton. WF has to be the biggest corporate whore in Alberta. Over the years this company has sucked hundreds of millions out of public vaults in Ottawa and Edmonton. It was only about 2 years ago that it got another $55M from Ottawa and I just can't count the favour$ that Alberta has heaped on it. http://www.hintonparklander.com/2012/12/03/monitoring-data-shows-air-quality-declining
ReplyDeleteAnyone else reminded of Bombardier?
ReplyDeleteThe softwood lumber agreement with the Yanks expires in October and I'm betting that the Yanks won't renew it because an international court has already found that Ontario and Quebec subsidize their industries. Ontario created a CRIBE ( http://www.cribe.ca/home ) which is self-styled as a not for profit research development agency but it's just a phony little cover to dispense taxdollars to forestry companies.
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