In Glen Ridgway’s recent letter he writes about an idea or concept of logging he refers to as, ‘logging/recreation.’ It is hard to believe how far archaic minded pro-logging ex-councillors will go.
The very idea that Ridgway compares himself and his ideas equal to the scientists of UBC, who have demonstrated that carbon sequestration in other forests is a form of sustainable revenue and can be used here. Even Mosaic, the large logging company, has closed off logging to thousands of hectares of forest land they control in favour of carbon sequestration.
In addition, the public financial records at the municipality clearly show that the profits over the decades from the basically secret logging operation the municipality was carrying on were on average a paltry annual sum.
When will these egotistical, status quo, pro-logging, pulp wood cutting believers finally realize that our six Municipal Mountains are worth more to the people of this valley left alone and standing?
Bryan Senft, North Cowichan