Ingmar Lee Online
Written by Ingmar Lee Monday, 30 October 2006 13:42
Printed in the ESSA Journal, UVic Environmental Studies Sept. 2003
Giant ocean swells were rolling into Solander Island in unobstructed pulses from across the Pacific. The immense rollers were rising and falling against the island in a respiration of 50 foot sweeps, washing up and down against this treeless Gibraltar off the northern point of the Brooks Peninsula. October isn’t everyone’s choice of season to visit Vancouver Island’s ‘Cape Horn,’ but my friend Michael and I had chosen our weather window, and after 4 hours of hard kayaking from the Klaskish Inlet, we were now alongside of the island.
Written by Ingmar Lee Friday, 27 October 2006 12:49
Counterpunch - November 15, 2005
It’s been particularly dog-eat-dog in Vancouver Island’s forests of late. MacMillan-Bloedel begat Weyerhaeuser begat BRASCAN begat Brookfield Asset Management begat Trilon Bancorp Inc. begat Cascadia/Island Timberlands which has now been gotten by Western Forest Products. If WFP survives its current bankruptcy proceedings, it will become the biggest logging corporation on the Canadian west coast with nine sawmills, five remanufacturing mills, a pulp mill, 3,700 employees, and annual cutting rights to 6.8 million cubic metres of timber.
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