Day 056 - 28 Nov 94 - Page 44
1 A. Right.
2
3 Q. Only a proportion of the timber taken in that clearfelling
4 will ends up as packaging?
5 A. Absolutely.
6
7 Q. But you have not divided the area down because, say, only
8 20 per cent of it goes to packaging?
9 A. Yes.
10
11 Q. And that the same applies with thinning as well, does it,
12 or not?
13 A. Well, if you take the clearfell, the trees have gone,
14 and a high proportion of that goes into sawmill product.
15
16 Q. Yes. I understand that.
17 A. A certain proportion goes into boards because in
18 England we make chipboard and we make medium density
19 fibre. So that is a proportion. The thinnings -- if I may
20 continue just for a moment, sir -- we have taken out what
21 we take out on a thinning operation and we have left trees
22 that will continue to grow to maturity. So, we have taken,
23 if we put the two of them together, clearfelled and thinned
24 area, we have taken the gross area of which only a
25 proportion in both cases goes to provide the needed
26 requirement for McDonald's packaging.
27
28 Q. It is in both cases that I was asking about.
29 A. So, the 1.42 square miles leaves trees growing and
30 provides a lot of other product; it is not entirely going
31 to McDonald's packaging.
32
33 Q. No, that is what I thought but I wanted to make sure.
34 I mean, you may be tested on that; you may be tested on
35 your arithmetic, I do not know, but I wanted to make sure
36 I understood what you were saying.
37
38 MR. MORRIS: Just on that subject: The thinned area is mostly
39 for pulp production, is it not?
40 A. The thinned area ---
41
42 Q. The thinnings goes mostly to pulp?
43 A. -- largely because it is the natural outlet for it; it
44 is the cheapest end of the forest product sold in the
45 market.
46
47 Q. So, if we want to calculate the area of forest which is
48 needed to continue to take wood for pulp out, summing to
49 1.42, the total square miles for south Scotland, whatever
50 it was, the south of Scotland, do we have to base the total
51 area needed on the clearfelling alone, the .90 square miles
52 multiplied by 80, or do we have to take it on the whole
53 1.42 square miles multiplied by 80 ---
54 A. Well ----
55
56 Q. -- to allow for regeneration? Do you see what I am saying?
57 A. If one is being totally fair, one is taking a very
58 large area of forest, and you are defining the amount that
59 is needed, both in clearfelling and in thinning, to provide
60 the need for one year for all the requirements of
