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TAP CHANCED its wings alone to send a message to Gunns on the first anniversary (March 14) of their ‘pulling the plug’ on the RPDC Pulp Mill Approval Process. CONGRATULATIONS! It was a timely rally!
Now let’s put some perspective into this. What was so refreshing is that at this TAP event there were no Wilderness Society freeloaders rattling cans and milking the crowd for all that they’d give. On this issue they (The Wildos ) believe that they own it and that they are in possession of ALL the answers … thus we should all give everything to them to squander.
“Squander” I hear you cry! Yes that’s the word because this issue is much bigger than anything that would fit within their microscopic “agenda for the environment”, not to mention their own needs as ‘an organization’ to survive. Now to say this is a bit like saying motherhood is bad thing. Well it isn’t, but not all mothers are up to their task and some do not even have a handle on the thing that gives their life meaning.
The Wilderness Society people aren’t all bad, it is simply that many are one dimensional and just so deluded in their insistence that “the environment is everything”. It is important, very very important, in the mix but it isn’t absolutely everything. There’re issues that are as big, or even bigger, that get passed over because they do not fit within the wilderness tent all that comfortably.
The Wildos need to be at the community table but AT the table, not setting the menu, arranging the seating or running the dinner conversations.
But enough of the ‘Wildos’! It looks like TAP is starting to get some momentum up and starting to work without the Wilderness Society’s lead in their saddle and with their need to pull all the levers held in check.
There is a way to go as the press seems to have bought the story that ‘really, it’s all about the environment’ and the black and the white of the pro and anti pulp mill story. As long as this persists Gunns and the ‘the government’ can run the line that those opposed to the pulp mill are just “nay sayers in the end” and therefore discountable, even absolutely so.
Go to it TAP and keep up your new found resolve to get the multidimensionality of this pulp mill proposal on the table, and most of all, being considered in context. It’s a winning approach.
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