(Background: “Logging near cemetery a ‘shock’ for Port Alberni residents” Letter Published in March 13, 2024 edition of AV News) Dear Editor, I am not shocked. Mosaic’s (formerly Island Timberlands and Timberwest) recent logging adjacent to the cemetery and Hole in the Wall shows in the worst way that it respects the dead as much …
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(This letter was sent to multiple Island newspapers on June 8, 2023. Published: June 12 Times Colonist.) Dear Editor,We have four alternatives to Highway 4. Three roads are controlled by Mosaic Forest Company and one railway escaped the fire and floods but not decades of Government neglect. It is time for Government’s stubborn, ideological resistance …
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(Sent to the Times Colonist April 11, 2021) Dear Editor, Mosaic Forests announced it would be testing out two electric logging trucks from Tesla Motors. Exciting news in the world of fossil fuel free transport but there seems to be a semi-load of irony attached. The majority of Mosaic’s CO2 emissions are likely not from …
