Day 007 - 06 Jul 94 - Page 33
1 A. That is correct.
2 Q. It is an analysis of the timber situation in the United
States, 1989 to 2040. Do you we know the actual date of
3 its publication? December 1990, if you look on the top
of page 61?
4 A. Yes.
5 Q. Keeping in your head, or on a piece of paper if you have
one, can you write on the back of that the figure,
6 McDonald's tonnage for virgin paper of 88,761? Now turn,
please, to page 262 of the document. I have not the page
7 numbers for the time being, but please use the printed
page numbers.
8
MR. JUSTICE BELL: 262 is 327.
9
MR. RAMPTON: I am obliged, my Lord. Do we see a table at the
10 bottom of the page, table B8. Do you have that?
A. Yes, I do.
11
Q. Do we see on the right hand side a section headed
12 "Pulpwood consumption?
A. Yes.
13
Q. I do not know what "cords" are. So, ignore them. Look at
14 the heading "cubic feet"?
A. Yes.
15
MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are something like a length of log
16 about 3 feet by 6 feet by 4 feet. Whatever the dimensions
are, they are as they stand?
17 A. For some kind of box, yes.
18 MR. MORRIS: Which part of the chart are we on now?
19 MR. RAMPTON: It is a sub- heading to per short ton of pulp
produced. That short ton is the American ton of
20 2,000lbs?
A. It is, yes.
21
Q. We see that for every ton of pulp for paper making which
22 is produced ---- That is what it means?
A. Yes.
23
Q. You need to use, on a rough estimate, 117.4 cubic feet of
24 wood; is that what it means?
A. That is right.
25
Q. Or of trees.
26
MR. MORRIS: Where does it say 117.4?
27
MR. RAMPTON: At the bottom?
28 A. It is an average of all the processes, all tree types.
29 Q. Different processes, as you more or less would?
A. Yes.
30
Q. That is the average of cubic footage of wood needed to
