The announcement was made Thursday morning and the changes are meant to spur economic growth among private woodlots. (CBC)
The Higgs government plans to give private woodlots a larger share of the market to supply large mills in New Brunswick while freezing the amount coming from publicly owned Crown land for five years.
Mike Holland, the natural resources and energy development minister, announced the moves Thursday, saying the change will help spur more economic growth among private woodlots.
"This is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal" that the Progressive Conservatives first promised in last year's election campaign, Holland said.
"I feel very proud to be able to talk about this, the next layer of the work we're doing to create that forest for the future," he said.
Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland wouldn't say whether the changes are to comply with 2015 recommendations or to win back the province's exemption from U.S. tariffs. (CBC)
Holland didn't cite a specific percentage of wood that private woodlots would provide to mills. But with their supply growing while the amount from Crown land staying the same, the private share is likely to grow.
Auditor General Kim MacPherson wrote in a report in 2015 that the provincial government was not complying with a section of the Crown Lands and Forests Act.
That law says the minister of natural resources "shall ensure that private woodlots are a source of wood supply consistent with the principles of proportional supply and sustained yield."
MacPherson said at the time that while private woodlot sales were growing, they represented a shrinking share of overall wood sales to mills in the province.
U.S. lumber lobbyists relied in part on MacPherson's report when it demanded the Trump administration impose tariffs on New Brunswick wood.
The province's industry was traditionally exempt from U.S. softwood duties. But companies in that country said wood from Crown land was becoming a larger share of the market and had reached the level where mills should be considered unfairly subsidized.
They complained the share of Crown wood had jumped to 51 per cent in 2013 from 41 per cent in 2004 and was likely to grow again under the forestry plan put in place by the previous Progressive Conservative government.
Major forestry companies in New Brunswick denounced the conclusions as "false allegations" and called on the province to refute the auditor general's findings.
Auditor General Kim MacPherson reported that the province was not complying with a section of the Crown Lands and Forests Act in 2015. (CBC)
But when the U.S. government agreed to end New Brunswick's traditional exemption from tariffs in 2017, slapping duties of 20.8 per cent on most of the wood from the province, then-opposition leader Blaine Higgs said it was time to revisit the forestry plan.
Holland wouldn't say Thursday whether his changes are designed to comply with MacPherson's 2015 recommendations or to win back New Brunswick's exemption from U.S. tariffs. Industry's supply from Crown land is reviewed every five years.
Holland said the changes were "a reflection of what we're hearing on the ground to ensure we've got systems that are working" and said trade officials were working on the issue of American trade measures.
Mike Legere of Forest NB, the group representing most large forestry companies in the province, said they were more likely designed to "appease" woodlot owners who have complained vocally about being undercut by wood from Crown land.
Mike Legere of Forest NB said he considers the change a positive choice but the cap on the amount of wood coming from public forest leases is a concern. (CBC)
But Premier Blaine Higgs acknowledged to reporters that the shift could eventually allow the auditor general to say that her recommendations have been followed, something that might address U.S. concerns.
"So in that regard, it's helpful, and I don't deny it's helpful," Higgs said.
Holland also wouldn't say how large forestry companies were reacting to the news they won't be allowed to increase the amount of wood they cut on leased Crown land.
He said he didn't speak to all of the affected companies ahead of the public announcement, but in the discussions he did have, "all of the conversations were centred around opportunities."
He also said he pointed out that the PCs had promised these changes in the last election. Legere said he saw "some positive" in giving woodlot owners a chance to "catch up" to the supply of wood from Crown land.
But he also said the cap on the amount of wood coming from public forest leases is a concern.
"We're talking about trying to grow the province's economy," he said. "Five years to not have any growth in [the annual allowable cut], when we know the wood is there, is sort of deferring potential growth in the industry if those opportunities are there, so it's a concern."
Jason Limongelli, the vice-president of woodlands for J.D. Irving Ltd., said the Crown should maintain flexibility when it comes to investments and economic development. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
Jason Limongelli, the J.D. Irving Ltd. vice-president of woodlands, said most of Holland's plan amounts to "a great service" to the industry and the province, but he called on the minister to reconsider the freeze on wood allocation from Crown land.
He said the company didn't have any business plans premised on a wood increase, but "this is more about being able to capitalize on future opportunities, future growth, future economic development as it presents itself."
He said from biomass pellets for energy to recyclable paper bags replacing single-use plastic, wood represents an increasingly popular alternative to fossil fuels.
"When you look at a decision like this, you have to understand the balance, and there's always markets and timing of investments that you have to consider," Limongelli said.
"That's why we say the Crown should always maintain its flexibility to ensure that it can capitalize on any kind of investment or economic development potential."
Rick Doucett, the president of the New Brunswick Federation of Woodlot Owners, said he's happy about the change. (CBC)
But Rick Doucett, president of the New Brunswick Federation of Woodlot Owners, said his members "are excited to at least be the focus of this minister and this government."
He said he's also happy about Holland's promise to "refocus" the marketing-board system for woodlot owners.
"There has to be a structure," he said. "There has to be order to the chaos that's been created over the last 10 years."
Last year the New Brunswick Court of Appeal sided with large forestry companies in a battle over whether some contractors could buy logs directly from woodlot owners and sell them to major mills, bypassing the marketing-board system that is supposed to regulate such sales.
Tim Fox of the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission, an arm's-length body that oversees the entire system, said he was also happy with Holland's commitment.
"Bringing some more order will alleviate future issues from happening," he said. While last year's court ruling settled one dispute, "there's nothing to prevent them from recurring at any time, really." Doucett said a bill introduced by Green Party Leader David Coon would go further to help woodlot owners. Coon's bill would strengthen marketing boards, require all wood to pass through them and force mills to buy 30 per cent of their supply that way.
"That will solve the problem," Coon said Thursday. "This solves nothing." He called Holland's announcement "disappointing."
The Liberals said Holland's announcement is vague and hollow. People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said it sounded positive, but he wanted to see more details on exactly what the targets will be for woodlot owners.
Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Raised in Moncton, he also produces the CBC political podcast Spin Reduxit.
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David Peters Depending on where the wood is located on your lot, it costs about $55-60/cord to cut and deliver to the mill. Right now, the monopoly controlled marketing board will happily pay you about half that for your lumber.
That's the situation small woodlot owners face.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @David Peters: FYI I just gave up on your new friend
David Raymond Amos Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Perhaps his friend Charlie Leblanc (not Higgy's blogger buddy) will understand me
David Raymond Amos "Coon said Thursday. "This solves nothing." He called Holland's announcement "disappointing."
The Liberals said Holland's announcement is vague and hollow. People's Alliance Leader Kris Austin said it sounded positive, but he wanted to see more details on exactly what the targets will be for woodlot owners."
YEA RIGHT but what will they do about it?
David Raymond Amos "Rick Doucett, the president of the New Brunswick Federation of Woodlot Owners, said he's happy about the change."
Methinks Higgy, Mikey Holland and Brian Mosher the chairman of the New Brunswick Forest Products Commission were not surprised when Rick Doucett's cohorts in SNB and Andrew Clark's Green Meanie pals would not permit me to debate Bruce Northrup during the last election N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos Reply to @David Raymond Amos: "Auditor General Kim MacPherson wrote in a report in 2015 that the provincial government was not complying with a section of the Crown Lands and Forests Act.
That law says the minister of natural resources "shall ensure that private woodlots are a source of wood supply consistent with the principles of proportional supply and sustained yield."
Paul Bourgoin Plaster Rock deer harvest statistics from 1983 to 1987 show a crash in the deer harvest totals of 34 % (Both male and Females were harvested)
Plaster Rock deer harvest statistics from 1989 to 1999, identify the deer harvest totals collapsed 35 %. (Females subtracted from both 1990-91 deer harvest totals) Deer Harvest success reflects the state of the deer population.
During the last fifteen years (1984-1999) the state of Maine has taken a hands on approach to deer management. They increased their deer herd from 160,000 deer to 292,000 deer. An 82% growth in fifteen years.
Paul Bourgoin Arnold H. Boer, the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Branch in a 1973 edition N.B. Deer season 1973, Deer Management Report No. 1, States “While general statements concerning the beneficial effects that forestry practices had in producing good deer game range may have been true years ago, forestry today is the single most important factor threatening New Brunswick Deer"
Paul Bourgoin Report M-X-2/ Green River Project 1948-1965 The only recorded wildlife census during that time frame northern NB. A census of birds, mammals recorded by the Fredericton Research Laboratory spanning over an eighteen year period 1948-1965 confirms northern deer abundance.
A summary of findings per/10,000 car miles,/10,000 foot miles/ 10,000 boat miles tallying sighted deer. 1948-1965 • Car mile 198 deer seen • Foot mile 909 deer seen • Boat mile 3144 deer seen Gives you an idea of what we lost!
Jim Johnston There are some positives to this and now it will be up to the market place to determine whether there is potential for more wood from private land. Likely a small bump but nothing sustainable because automation has hit the forest big time. The romantic notion of someone managing the woodlot with a chainsaw and tractor and selective harvesting and it providing a reasonable rate of return on the investment and labour involved is a thing of the past. As for the Forest NB mouthpiece suggesting that the freeze will stop growth in NB? The forest industry has likely been the largest source of decline in NB, as Paul Bourgoin points up below - a loss of 28,000 DIRECT forest jobs down to 7,000 left in the last 38 years. The actual forest has always been the "loss leader" in the forest industry right across Canada and we as tax payers have been footing the bill.
David Peters Reply to @Jim Johnston: Exactly, NB taxpayer's are paying to have their public lands clear-cut and sprayed.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Jim Johnston: Methinks many private woodlot owners would agree that Allan Graham and Frank McKenna did them in years ago and that the Conservatives went along with it ever since. At least Northrup cannot deny that he was once a liberal who wanted to run under Frank's banner years ago N'esy Pas?
Paul Bourgoin One of the biggest factor affecting our crown land wood, Fish, wildlife populations and their habitat is un-reported abuse. The laying off of the majority of DNRE staff, our forest rangers to be replaced by Industry monitoring! Who would have the influence to pull such a SCAM!! or call it the fox minding the hen-house!
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Who does Rick Doucett work for and what is his job?
Steve M The Irvings must be on board with this or Higgs wouldn't do it.
David Peters Reply to @Steve M: It's a gimmick to make it seem like the PC's are doing something to curb subsidies for the big operator. Would you bother cutting wood off your lot for less than what it would cost to get it out of the woods? Because, that's the choice small woodlot owners face.
David Peters Reply to @David Peters: I hear woodlot owners are offered 5$/cord. Most would leave it standing.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Steve M: Of course
David Peters Reply to @Dave Peters: Small woodlot owners are being offered half of what it costs to cut and deliver it to the mill. Because of commodity price controls(marketing board), they have no other choice.
Paul Bourgoin Private Woodlot owners have been abused, Bullied by Industry ever since Dr. Louis LaPierre was selected by the Government of NB to establish a Crown-land Forest Management plan. The plan turned out to be the shutting of wood production doors for private Woodlot owners, their ability to sell their wood to industry versus the cheap Crown-land wood. Then, Dr. LaPierre was given the greatest recognition medal applicable to foresters "The Governors General Medal', but LaPierre was identified as a fraud with no recognized credentials but selected by industry and Politicians and maintained by the Crown. The current forest management plan drafted by LaPierre is still recognized as LaPierre's management planning book. Fish, Wildlife, and important to wildlife survival habitat was given to industry thus eliminating valuable wildlife habitat. The kings of industry profited and eliminated many forestry jobs. In 1982 there were 35,000 direct forestry jobs in New Brunswick, today there are barely 7000 jobs remaining. Then when taking into account the revenue generated by Bird Watchers, hunters, fishermen, private camp owner’s , tourism, when added together it represents more revenue to New Brunswick then forestry does! When Industry and Government sits together in management planning they always forget what Joe Public wants, not what Politicians and industry plans to benefit themselves!
Fred Brewer Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: I think he is now known as Mr. Louis LaPierre not Dr.
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @Fred Brewer: He never was, but he was politically selected by politicians who hide behind semi closed doors to watch! then deny!
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Methinks some would agree that you should run for public office N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos Methinks you are not paying attention to the circus close enough ifyou don't understand Higgy's latest joke N'esy Pas?
Bill Hamilton Capping the Crown harvest levels at the current (high) volumes will not cause increased harvest levels on small private woodlots. The low net cost of crown wood, combined with the governments low utilization standards make Crown wood too appealing to big business. Private woodlots operated as a for-profit business cannot compete with a government that uses Crown wood as a handout to big business.
David Peters Reply to @Bill Hamilton: Especially when the marketing boards set the price for lumber lessthan what it costs to harvest/deliver it.
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @Bill Hamilton: Funny how strong and persuasive the Political donations can be!
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @David Peters: If they don't yield to their wishes they are left in the cold!
David Peters Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Sounds more like a ra ck et.
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @David Peters: No only New Brunswick residents are being hassled also and hustled by Politics.
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @David Peters: Nice to to talk to someone who understands!
David Peters Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: I bet a lot of NBers who had to leave to find decent work understand.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Deja Vu for you
David Peters Is the marketing board going to allow small woodlot owners to make a profit, by setting a decent price for their lumber?
Commodity(lumber) price controls shouldn't exist either...they are yet another monopoly sustaining tool. Market forces should set the lumber value.
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @David Peters: What about the destruction of fish, wildlife habitat and the revenue they generated in New Brunswick history annually now being Devastated, Destroyed!
David Peters Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: How do you police a monopoly? Our trained, experienced forestry experts get threatening lawyers letters when they point out destructive forestry practices.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @David Peters: Methinks Higgy everybody else knows how much I would love to have a lawyer send me a threatening letter N'esy Pas?
Norman Albert I am very surprised that Kim is still with us. Not like the Irving's to take this sitting down. Generally firings follow don't they? TG for these loyal public servants!!!
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Norman Albert: She has the files I sent Ferguson years ago
David Peters: The existing monopoly should never have been allowed to form in the first place. It has distorted the marketplace and causes problems not only at home, but abroad too.
Economic recovery won't happen till the monopolies are broken up in favor of real, free market competition.
Norman Albert Reply to @David Peters: While they have total control over this province that is highly unlikely to happen. Sad to say.
David Peters: Reply to @Norman Albert: Monopolies have been broke up before, but it has to be done legislatively.
Norman Albert Reply to @David Peters: you really think they will go quietly? I don't. They own governments.
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @David Peters: Well I believe when the Crown Tolerates the over-harvesting of crown land forest more than the annual growth within our crown land they should be Fired! also fined!
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @David Peters: Monopolies, no but maybe political investments in Political Parties could have serious influence on the forest, and wildlife future survival here in NB!
David Peters: Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: No doubt it's having an affect on wildlife. Did you know they fired two forestry professors for speaking out about the destruction going on in the forests by the big operator?
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @David Peters: You forgot about Dr. Elish Cleary who was not fired but by what we heard was compensated to for her silence. She did not believe in Glysophate but understood the consequences especially after it was Banned in the United States because of the negative impact on humans!!
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: I have talked to Dr. Elish Cleary Have you?
Rosco Holt These changes will accomplish nothing. The private woodlots owners won't get a bigger share of the market(at a fair price) since industry retains it's access to crownlands.
Also we haven't heard anything from Irving so it's just smoke & mirrors
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Rosco holt: BINGO
Kyle Woodman The forestry companies aren't leasing crown land. They have a license to cut a certain volume annually. Once that wood is cut, they move on.
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Really!
Alan Guay As someone who is admittedly, and justifiably skeptical, of the ongoing quest for fiber within OUR NB lands and forests, I think the Government, that being Blaine Higgs, and Mike Holland, have taken steps to follow the NB LAW as written. That in itself is good, it's encouraging. This may or may not have been the objective in the context of other motives here. Tariffs, Campaign Promises, Industry pressures etc, etc. very complex, may have forced this action. That said If the result is an ... » more
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @Alan Guay: Private wood lot owners could make more money with their lots if they were to manage their lots to sustain Fish and wildlife populations for hunting fishing and even better Bird watching generates in the MILLIONS of dollars annually !
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Dream on
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Alan Guay: Methinks the liberals are giggling as much as Iam at this nonsense N'esy Pas?
Justin Time Smoke and mirrors. With the demand and price controlled by the large forestry companies private woodlot owners will still be getting a raw deal if they decide to sell at all. Not much change here.
Stephen Robertson Reply to @Justin Time: sorry Justin this is a good news story. The latest of several from Minister Holland. Then again I fear if they posted a picture of his dog walking on water, you would down vote it cause it couldn't swim.
Justin Time Reply to @Stephen Robertson: Freezing an already absurd allotment tolarge forestry companies does nothing. And you might want to talk to private woodlot owners about how great a good news story this is. Fair market value is what the large companies say it is, and with no where else for private harvesters to sell the wood, the large companies hold all the marbles. But everyone is entitled to an opinion.
Rosco Holt Reply to @Stephen Robertson: It would have been something if they'd raised stumpage fees or got market prices for crown wood, in addition to make sure that crown wood was uses by local mills and not shipped to other jurisdictions. Feeding mills in other provinces or country.
This announcement is a joke to please the US.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Rosco holt: I wholeheartedly agree sir
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Justin Time: True
Paul Bourgoin Reply to @Justin Time: Private woodlot owners should get together and build a privately owned mill serving all private woodlot owners who can't sell their wood for fair pricing! A COOP!
David Raymond Amos Content disabled Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: Methinks "The Powers That Be" would never allow that to happen and many would agree that Higgy's job of herding cats would be easier anyway, Furthermore you know what happened 4 years ago You commented then Nesy Pas?
Dave Peters Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: They will be targeted by the oligarch & runout of business. zinvestors would not huybinto this option. Only option would be legislate the end of the monopoly.
David Raymond Amos Reply to @Dave Peters: Methinks your newfound friend must be blocking me because he does not like my Chiac N'esy Pas?
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Dr. Shawn Dalton is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (Biology, 1988), the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Masters of Environmental Studies, 1992), and The Johns Hopkins University (Doctorate, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Engineering, 2002). For the past two decades, she has worked in the areas of integrated and community-based urban resource management, watershed management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and the application of social ecological models to a variety of human ecosystems. She has led collaborative research teams conducting applied research in urban and rural communities, and uses an interest-based approach to the application of social sciences in resource management.
Dr. Dalton has been Director of the Environment and Sustainable Development Research Centre at the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, NB, Canada; is a member of the US Department of Interior’s Strategic Sciences Working Group, which applies integrated sciences to the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico; and is the Executive Director of the Canaan-Washademoak Watershed Association. In addition, Dr. Dalton serves as the Chair of the Fredericton Area Watersheds Association Steering Committee, and is a Co-Principal Investigator of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a National Science Foundation-funded Long-Term Ecological Research site; and an Associate of the Canadian Rivers Institute at UNB.
Canadian Rivers Institute Primary contact: Sherry McCoy 10 Bailey Drive, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB E3B5A3 Phone: 506-453-4770 and 506 443 3916 cri@unb.ca
Tabusintac Watershed Association (TWA) 14689 Route 11 Tabusintac, NB E9H 1J6 tabusintacwatershed@nb.aibn.com Phone: 5067780378
Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance 236 St. George Street, Suite 405 Moncton, New Brunswick, E1C 1W1 Primary contact: Billie Joe Fowler Phone: (506) 384-3369 Email: info@petitcodiacwatershed.org
November 09, 2005 Righteous Causes "How do I get a corrupt legal system to investigate, charge and convict itself?"-Byron Prior
T Alex Hickman
Justice Minister for The Province of Newfoundland 1966-79 Health Minister for the Province of Newfoundland 1968-69 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland 1979-2000 Member of the Order of Canada Freemason Grand Master
Child Rapist?
Before I became involved in politics I knew that official corruption was rampant but I still did not appreciate the degree to which it was the rule rather than the exception.
After my run for Lieutenant Governor I became aware of two individuals who had a lesson for me on the subject of official corruption. One is a man by the name of David Amos to whom I may later devote some attention. The other is a man by the Name of Byron Prior whom I would not have gotten to know lest it be for Dave. To make a long story short, as a result of my run for office, I came to know about official corruption to a degree that the average voter could not appreciate.
I have not met Byron as of yet. We have only spoken on the phone. What he has told me cannot be made up, it is a story of official corruption gone mad, and it is a story that would curl your spine. If you want to test for the presence of a spine then I challenge you to read his website from start to finish. If you don't want to bother then "trust me".
I will try to summarize for you, if you want to go and read for yourself you can do so here. Byron was the oldest of twelve children. His father was the captain of a freight ship and his mother, when his father was away, was a uniformed Salvation Army whore. She was at times addicted to various drugs and Liquor, but the thing she was most addicted to was money.
It was this that led her to do the unthinkable, namely to prostitute her own children out to the top paying pedophiles in her neighborhood.
Now I want to ask you a question, suppose your younger sister was raped and impregnated at the ripe age of twelve? What would you do? Suppose that the rapist, not only escaped justice, but also is the Justice Minister for the province you lived in? Suppose the name on the façade of the "Hall of Justice" to which you sought your reparations was named after, T. Alex Hickman, the man who raped your younger sister when she was all of twelve years old? What would you do? A weaker man might have committed murder or suicide but Byron has attempted, despite impossible odds, to seek justice for the heinous crimes committed against his family. Because the perpetrators of these most heinous of crimes are men of power it has cost Byron a great deal. He has been unable to find employment despite his many talents, used up all his assets to survive, and to make matters worse the community in which he lives has ostracized him despite the fact that many know he is telling the truth. As if it were Byron that were bringing a black eye to Newfoundland and not Mr.T Alex Hickman. To make matters worse, the small stipend provided by social services was cut off last Christmas. He, his wife and son had no Christmas-only to be told after Christmas that it was a mistake. Things are OK now, never the less a fine gift from Mr. Hickman who is essentially still in control after 38 years of total power. It is for these efforts on behalf of his family against imposable odds that when the day ever comes where we meet in person, I will give him the biggest hug he has ever received from someone he has never met. What Byron lacks in education, he more than makes up for in courage. There are a lot of educated cowards out there, so what!
To summarize, Byron and his siblings suffered tremendous abuse at the hands of their mother and members of their hometown of approx. 2500 people. His younger sister Susan, at the age of twelve, was raped and impregnated by a man by the name of T Alex Hickman-a big fish in a small pond. All that is required to put an end to this is for Mr. Hickman to take a Q-tip and swab it in his Satan-felleting mouth. This same sister was also raped and impregnated by a man named Bill Matthews and his friends. Matthews later became the Liberal MP for the province of Newfoundland where Byron calls home. Any wonder that he deserves his day in court?
Go look at his guestbook and see the efforts his enemies will take to make his life difficult. Actually, I take this new development (destroying his guestbook by repeatedly entering herbalife nutrition products or bmw parts in place of NAME or EMAIL ADDRESS) as a good sign. It means that these bastards are feeling their weakness. Byron's story cannot be made up. One has to ask oneself what could possibly be gained by making the allegations he has made if they were not true. As Byron points out "I didn't just awake one morning and decide to accuse the most powerful and most corrupt legal animal in this province". All the while this coward who likes to rape children, not only gets away with the crime, but also persecutes the man who would seek justice on behalf of his family.
Byron had some incredible stories for me when we talked on the phone. He is a jack-of-all-trades who cannot get a job because of his pursuit of justice in a land ruled by his tormentor. He has worked on oil rigs and in repairing ships wounded on the treacherous shores of Newfoundland. One day a cargo ship owned by Paul Martin the current Canadian Prime Minister and named after his wife, limped into port for repairs, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Kilos of cocaine, were found in the steering section, no one was charged. Another story he told me was a story of resource exploration gone badly. As it turns out, Newfoundland is sitting on some of the richest oil and natural gas reserves in the North-Atlantic, in fact the Canadian Government sold the known reserves to the Multi National oil companies. An exploration Rig, The Ocean Ranger, was surveying for oil/natural gas, on the Grand Banks, off Newfoundland. Because of the voracious greed of the oil company doing the surveying the rig was operating in waters, 30 meters or approx. 100 feet, shallower than it was built for. It had all the tractor-trailer office-boxes on top, which added more weight, which meant it needed even more water. Then a storm kicked up and the swells picked this rig up and down till one of the legs hit the bottom and snapped off. The whole rig capsized. Everyone on board was killed. T. Alex Hickman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Commissioner of the Ocean Ranger Inquiry, said, The Companies are neither responsible nor liable for what happened to this oil rig. As it is said, "There is no loyalty among thieves".
Another story Byron was a witness to involving the exploration of natural resources gone badly this time off the Northern Labrador Coast which was known as one of the richest fisheries in the world. They also happened to be one of the richest sources of natural gas in the Northern Atlantic. A Drill Ship, The Pelerin, was surveying for oil and natural gas off the coast. They wound up hitting pay dirt on a fearsome level. While drilling they hit what must have been a fissure, because the volume of natural gas that erupted threatened to sink the ship. When any gas is dissolved in water it reduces the buoyancy of anything floating on the surface. It would have sunk instantly for lack of buoyancy had the strong current not carried the natural gas away from the ship. They tried in vain for three days to seal the leak but it overcame their abilities. It was this incident that may have caused the death of the cod fishery in the richest grounds of the North Atlantic. Byron is a witness to this incident.
Byron also told me about the Islands of St-Pierre and Miquelon, two neighboring French islands ten miles off the coast of Southern Newfoundland. They are the last territory held by France. The currency is the Euro and one must clear customs whenever they arrive by boat or air from Newfoundland. St-Pierre and Miquelon have a long history of smuggling; it's the main industry there. Today, the tradition continues with the smuggling of drugs through these islands, namely heroin and cocaine. It should be noted that the largest drug smugglers are the Illuminati. The Illuminati are made up in part by European royal families. It has been alleged that the largest drug smuggler in the world is the Queen of England.
The Illuminati are also big on pedophilia. One reason for this is that if an Illuminist whore politician is videotaped having sex with a child they are essentially held by the short and curlys. If said whore does not go along with the program of the Illuminati it would be quite easy to bring them down off their throne all the way into a prison cell. It is through the horrible act of pedophilia that the Illuminati are able to get their minions to do their evil bidding. Another reason the Illuminati are big on pedophilia is that they are worshipers of Lucifer. There is nothing that brings more joy to luciferians than to steal the innocence of a child. They think it brings them power when in the end they will live to regret their actions for eternity. This brings us back to the Islands of St-Pierre and Miquelon. Given the islands rich history in smuggling (Al Capone visited the islands often and his hat hangs on a wall in a local bar to this day), it is safe to assume that human trafficking exists on the island as well. If a smuggler manages to traffic a child the short distance to St-Pierre they can be flown by jet to Saudi-Arabia and be servicing a sheik before their photograph appears on the side of a milk carton. It should be noted at this time that Illuminist families are not limited to European royalty; they are present in the Middle East as well. All you need do, gentle reader, is google "bin laden family" + "illuminati". In fact Saudi Arabia, one of the most tightly controlled societies, operates much like the Illuminist crime families of Europe and America with cousins marrying cousins. In fact the Illuminist crime syndicate otherwise known as the Bush family have been friends and business partners with the Bin Ladin family for more than two generations. When you worship demons you have to keep it in the family. Never the less these sheiks can have all the sex they want with golden haired boys and girls if they choose. If said golden haired child was abducted in North America, there is a good chance the last soil they stood on before being shipped out was St. Pierre or Miquelon.
Byron has rightly not made an issue of these facts. For these do not directly involve the justice his family so desperately needs. These matters only further amplify the tragic story of the Illuminati and their arrogance against the planet earth. Their abuse of the planet is mirrored by their abuse of their neighbor. The fact that T Alex Hickman, a highly powerful man, could rape his twelve year-old neighbor, as a 42-year-old Justice Minister, only reinforces the arrogance of the Illuminati. Hickman is a Grand Master freemason, which puts him close to-or within-the lower ranks of the Illuminati.
Aside from Byron and his brothers and sisters, this post is dedicated to those readers who wish to take some kind of action against these inbred luciferian bastards who are destroying all that is pure and good. Byron has not yet seen justice and Mr. Hickman is still alive but the clock is ticking. To those readers who are fed up with the Illuminati's domination of their lives and want to do something here is a suggestion, go to his website and try to read a story that is admittedly difficult to digest-that such abuse could ever occur. Take a look at page 5 to see how deep the Hickman tentacles permeate this very rich province that suffers much poverty. Sign his guestbook to counteract the attempts of the Illuminati to destroy it. You may leave your name as "anonymous" if you wish. Every entry into his guestbook that is not "Nissan parts" would be very welcome. But most importantly, please e-mail the Prime Minister at pm@pm.gc.ca and The Premier at premier@nl.gov.ca Tell them, The Prior's of Grand Bank, Newfoundland deserve Justice and the Nfld. Legal System is in desperate need of an open and public inquiry into its actions for the past 39 years. This action, if taken, will give his family and many others unfairly treated, Justice.
It should be noted that none of the above actions would cost a dime, just a few minutes of your time. This post and my actions on his behalf have been done because I have a deep sense of responsibility to my neighbor. If this kind of abuse can happen "over there" it can happen anywhere.
"The politicians ponder over whether we need an inquiry into the dealings of our legal system. If they need to wonder about that situation lets look at a short legacy of the 34 years of T.Alex Hickman.
1. The boys from the Mount Cashel orphanage after years of complaints to the legal system nothing was done. 2. The girls from Belvedere orphanage after years of complaints to the legal system nothing was done. 3. Three young men each charged with murder in individual cases all found guilty and sentenced to prison terms years later after their lives and their families lives have been devastated, all found to be innocent. 4. The nephew of T.Alex Hickman found guilty of stealing more than 100 thousand dollars from a contract at Come By Chance serves a sentence of a few weekends at the Penitentiary with Saturday visits each time with his personal secretary. 5. The nephew of Supreme Court Judge Finton Alyward found guilty of beating and robbing a pizza delivery man was told by the judge with his upbringing he should know better and sentenced to early night time curfew for a few months. 6. The Prior's of Grand Bank, hometown of the Justice Minister and later to be come chief justice of the Supreme Court, T.Alex Hickman all of our lives report abuse and persecution to the legal system a minimum of 9 times. Nothing as ever been done to give my family justice. 7. The Ocean Ranger Inquiry, 82 lives gone, with no compensation from anyone for the Families." -Byron Prior
Posted by Peter Stevenson on November 09, 2005 at 12:06 PM
Byron David Prior 66 Readers Hill Crescent Conception Bay South A1W5B4 709 834 9822
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:08:34 -0400 Subject: You make movies eh? Check these emails out then ask yourself why you never heard of me or why menard plays dumb To: payazo@pascalleocormier.com Cc: maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:52:26 -0400 Subject: Fwd: So Chucky your butt buddy Brucy Baby Northrup was on a trip down to Gasland when I sent the email below EH? To: benpar302@shaw.ca
Andrew Holland and his sneaky ways are to be expected but after I watched your video I figured out that it was a small wonder his why women assistants were so nasty to today
The only "Yes Man" I managed to speak to was a sleepy Joseph in New York but i left alot of messages and I spoke to a few people as well. They know who they are. Correct? I did not bother a single Ezzy yet. For the record nobody has called me back thus far today. Rest assured that I am not holding my breath as I send this email as promised and go about the rest of my day after getting something off my chest about actvists and their greedy insincere actions.
Also for the record I remember Ezra of Cinema Politica calling my old cell phone in 2007 as he was between two universities. He left me some funny screaming voicemails and threatened litigation too. As usual I would always respond in writing and begged the nasty lttle bastard to introduce me to his lawyer and then sought them out myself. As odd as he was Ezzy Baby said some interesting things that I wish I had recorded. I could tell he had spoken to other people about me before he mae his calls. He appeared to be trying to pick a fight on behalf of the Fake Left and that did not surprise me considering all the shit that was going down in Fredericton at that point in time. The most interesting of what that wacko Upper Canadian said was what people were saying of me down here in the Maritimes EH Tracy Baby?
BTW The same same indignation I have toward activists also holds true about the issues raised the movie Gasland. new bunswickers really shold ask the Minister of Natural Resources Brucy Baby Northrup remembers what Jac Nasser of BHP sent to me dring the latest provincialelection and why he sent it EH? Please allow me to simply say Potash plus Natural Gas mixed in with lots of money produces PURE BULLSHIT/ If you doubt me simpley Google the expression "Nobody Will Say My Name" to find a strange blog and start reading some very old emails etc if they wish to understand wh i laugh at the following links.
I found it interesting last night that Gasland is presented within the corporate media just like the very questional work of Michael Moore and Al Gore is. There is obviously no need for people to go to the various Cinema Politica to see it anymore. However ask any priest or politician if they disagree that the worst lies are the ones with some truths mixed in. On the otherhand nobody gives a good god damn about the truth anyway. It is always money that rules the day EH?That said need I say that I found it interesting that the activist artist Josh Fox and the pack of fellow anti war actors were once supported by the Rockerfeller Foundation. Very strange indeed. Its kinda like who supports the big talking David Suzuki of CBC N'esy Pas?
Even more interesting to me is who promotes Gasland in the USA and whom else they also promote. Who is confused mean old me or the spin doctor named Skipper? i feel compeeled to ask has he even watched the movie he promotes? I know for a fact one of Bond's associates has not as of earlier today anyway.
Louisiana is the number one producer of crude oil in the nation – as well as the number two producer of natural gas. Roughly 88 percent of the nation’s offshore oil rigs are located off Louisiana’s coast. The Greater New Orleans Region is the state’s energy hub, home to a number of growing refineries and petrochemical plants with planned expansions over the next 2-3 years totaling $6.4 billion.
TOO TOO SAD AND FUNNY AT THE SAME TIME
Furthermore I also noticed like most activists Josh and his associates do not offer much of their own contact information other than certain email addresses as they suggest that many folks contact many others and raise a little hell for them. Notice in his film he calls lot of people on the phone and presents their messages like I do but he never tells anyone his phone number? Go figure EH Tracy Baby of Fat Fred City? Need say that I am used to the nonsense of your blogging btt buddy Chucky Leblanc No doubt he will never dare to say my name anymore. I am tired of Cardy of the NDP and your many other noname Fake Left friends everywhere else in New Brunswick calling me names. owever I am thankful for cary's recent vocemails. At least I have a name and did run for public office after litigating against US Attorney Generals and Treasury Agents in YankeeDoodleland. Has Cardy done so yet? What have you other activists in Fat Fred City done but watch movies and put on a show protesting infront of your political friends and then go party with them afterwards? Where do you so called activists get your funding? DUHHH???
Methinks that everyone should take Josh's advice and then follow it up by NEVER EVER voting for the same smiling bastards again. The odds are that someday we may get somebody who may behave like Birgitta Jonsdottir to sit in our parliament.
"Integrity Yea Right" Google that simple expression if ya dare. Anyone with half a mind can see that I have been there and done that many times while legions of far from ethical activists ither made fun of me or worse yet made false allegations against me. EH EZRA?
Veritas Vincit David Raymond Amos
P.S it should prove interesting to mean old me to see if anyone ever has the balls to call me back after attempting to understand the rest of this email about the actions of activists and lawyers here there and everwhere. I know the liberals never will again after your executive in Upper Canada called me last month and asked some some very dumb questions. Perhaps you should call Ms Jonsdottir and say hey to her for mean old me EH IGGY?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wayne_Boone <Wayne_Boone@carleton.ca> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:51:21 -0500 Subject: RE: I noticed you report about Assange etc but not about my friend Birgitta Jonsdottir Howcome? To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
I am not certain why you sent this to me, David.
Sincerely, Wayne Boone CD PhD Assistant Professor, Infrastructure Protection and International Security (IPIS) Program The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) Deputy Director, Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies (CCISS) Room 1315 Dunton Tower Tel: +1 613-520-2600 ext. 6672 Cell: +1 613 863-2993 Fax: +1 613-520-2889
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:00:16 -0400 Subject: I noticed you report about Assange etc but not about my friend Birgitta Jonsdottir Howcome? To: CLG_News <clg_news@legitgov.org>
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Birgitta Jonsdottir <birgittajoy@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 22:37:13 +0000 Subject: Re: RE Canada, the USA, Iceland, Wikileaks, IMMI and Bankers etc the US Attorney Marc Litt no doubt remembers me EH Wendy? To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
got your letter David will try to find time to read all the information soon
Better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide
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