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1 Q. So there is no economic reason not to have major mills
2 bordering old-growth forest areas?
3 A. Alberta as a forest region has had relatively little
4 economic use and harvesting compared, obviously, with
5 British Columbia and the eastern region of Canada. Alberta
6 is very much a primary forest and it is very probable that
7 combined sawmill, production mill of board materials and
8 pulp mill may exist there. I cannot give an answer
9 specifically to the mill that you are referring to. In any
10 case, certainly the large trees which are typical of
11 old-growth forest if they are being converted into economic
12 product, will go for sawmill production and it will be the
13 waste of that sawmill production that goes into pulp.
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15 Q. Do you want to take us through your figures then as clearly
16 as you can on how you came to your -----
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think what would help is where you give a
19 figure starting from the bottom of page 4, what would help
20 me is if you say what the source of the figure is. Can you
21 do that?
22 A. Yes.
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24 Q. Some of them have obviously come from ----
25 A. I state immediately above it: "The following
26 definitions of timber volumes supplied for packaging
27 purposes for the UK Forestry Commission to the largest
28 carton board producer in the UK Iggesund Paperboard of
29 Workington, is both typical and indicative of the volumes
30 of wood consumed to make 1,000 tonnes of carton board."
31 I give reference No. 9 to it and I believe reference No. 9
32 is actually number (I) in the reference section. This is
33 the Business Enterprise Division, the Forest Enterprise
34 Forestry Commission on 7th January 1994. The document on
35 which my figures are based is signed by Mr. Donald Thomson
36 who is the Business Enterprise Division manager concerned
37 with supplying product from Forest Enterprise to Iggesund.
38 That is the source of that information.
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40 In point of fact, you will find that the figures used
41 follow right through what I have used, those that I have
42 used. I subsequently went back to Mr. Donald Thomson
43 because of the difference between the figures that we had
44 got from Mr. Kouchoukos relating to the United States.
45 I asked him to look at the figures that I had used, the
46 calculation that appears in my submission, and he came back
47 confirming that my submission was correct and giving an
48 explanation which I subsequently used in further notes to
49 explain what I thought the difference might be.
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51 Going from there, for every saleable 1,000 tonnes of carton
52 board the production process will use 1,590 tonnes of
53 pulpwood plus a 180 tonnes of sawmill residue. This is the
54 experience of that particular mill at Iggesund, that they
55 are taking a high proportion of pulpwood and a small
56 proportion of residue material into their manufacturing.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then you if you go over the page -- you have
59 already mentioned some imported hardwood market pulp for
60 the reason you have given and said that that is a very
