Just Ask JDI Q. JD Irving is an extremely profitable privately-held company. What is your secret for making so much money? Asked on September 15, 2014 at 10:10am A. Thank you for your question. You will understand that we cant share all of our secrets! But heres one we are very proud of: not only have we convinced governments of New Brunswick to give us unprecedented access to cut down Crown forests, weve convinced them that the provinces taxpayers should pay to transform vibrant forests into artificial tree plantations--strong centres of profit for JD Irving. For example, after we clear cut a forest, we use the former natural forest land for largely monoculture plantations of only the species of tree that profits us most. But an inconvenient thing keeps happening: nature tries to re-establish hardwood trees and other species of tree natural to the Acadian Forest which do not fit our low-cost production model. The hardwoods and other species are part of the ecosystem that includes and supports the mosses, lichen, amphibians, reptiles, insects, mammals, and every other kind of life that exists in a healthy ecosystem. Be we dont need any of that. So to help kill the unprofitable trees, and as a consequence make the land unable to support any life other than our profit-making trees, the taxpayers of New Brunswick pay for the long-term aerial spraying of the toxin glyphosate. Over the next fifty years, we and our friends in the industry expect to benefit from almost $600 million the taxpayers of New Brunswick will spend to tend our artificial tree farms! Thank you for your pledge to spend approximately $1000/ha in preparation and spraying for us to exploit the land. What is glyphosate? We dont have time to go into too much detail here, but many reliable resources are freely available which show the negative biological effects of both the herbicide itself, and the largely untested adjuvants with which it is mixed for application. But even if the glyphosate could be trusted to do only exactly what JD Irving needs it to, remember that it chemically annihilates the forest life which is an important part of the backbone of New Brunswicks natural ecosystem--and ensures JD Irving reaps the benefits of your incredible generosity. Bonus question: how much glyphosate does the provincial program spray? We dont want to scare you with big numbers, so well refer you to only a recent Province of New Brunswick tender for the glyphosate sprayed on our behalf. You can see in the May 2, 2014 invitation to tender linked here that for the contract period from June 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015, the province wanted 75,000 litres of the toxin specifically for aerial forestry application in New Brunswick. Youve been paying to spray herbicides on New Brunswick forests for the benefit of the forestry industry since 1970. JD Irving thanks New Brunswick for the gift of hundreds of thousands of litres of toxin falling from the skies! We know no natural forest is perfect for high-efficiency, high-profit, very low cost exploitation by pulp and paper companies. But with the generous help of the taxpayers of New Brunswick, weve been able to engineer artificial tree plantations that come pretty close. (In the few cases where a natural species gets in our way--well, we take care of them too.) justaskjdi.net/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 01:08:30 +0000
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