Editor:
Your article on raw-log exports (Coast Reporter, Feb. 24) fails to note that while lumber exports rose by 60 per cent in 2011, raw-log exports went up by 160 per cent.
And contrary to what Mike Bowering suggests in your article, that means we are exporting thousands of jobs in manufacturing. Manufacturing accounts for 2.8 times as many jobs in B.C. as does logging and forestry - every time we export a log we forgo job creation in sawmills, value-added plants and pulp and paper mills.
Raw-log exports kill jobs. We need to create more jobs in B.C. using B.C.'s resources.
KB Pollock
Canadian research representative
United Steelworkers, Burnaby
