not condemning it, but raw log exports are akin to shipping our crude to china.
no value-added manufacturing, and little to no retribution (relatively) for communities… the whole "social contract" thing is out the window.
2 sides to every coin though….
Similar but very different. Trees grow back, once the oil is gone it's gone for another
10,000,000 years.
problem is that china doesn't want 2x4's they aren't actually building wood-framed structures.
they want junky wood that they can use for forming concrete.
and the US doesn't want our high-grade lumber because they suck at life.
its a big shitfuck
I'm pretty sure our mills would be more than happy to make the lumber any dimensions the
Chinese (or anyone) wants. I'm also pretty sure that we have the technology to do to our
raw lumber whatever the Chinese is doing to it once it gets there.
It's not the Chinese's fault, it's not the Americans fault, it's the BC governments fault for
being pussies and not standing up for what is good for Canada and bowing to external
corporate and governmental pressure.
If you say, "no, we don't sell raw logs, but we have dimensional lumber for
sale, that, we'd be more than happy to process anyway you want", then they have no choice.
I'm not sure how much raw logs are leaving the island, but I can say I see a lot leaving
from Fraser Surrey.
As far as oil, nothing wrong selling it, or even having foreign corps taking it away.
Seems to me the Canadian government (or Alberta) should be striking better deals when
the enter into these partnerships.
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