NEC propaganda piece in today's E.R.

Margaret Draper's return fire against John Campbell's accurate assessment on the anti-community, anti-environmental protection, pro-Luddite agenda of the Northcoast Environmental Center, only throws the same ecologically bass-ackwards nonsense that has led the enviro activist community to become Humboldt County's No. 1 source for environmental misinformation, really deliberate disinformation.

NEC, like EPIC, like EF!, like Humboldt Watershed Council, are not in business to protect our environment. They are there to attack the timber industry by painting a false picture of commercial timber operations. They are there to provide economic livelihoods for career activists. Greg King will no doubt set himself up for the rest of his activist career like his predecessor did, creating NEC as almost a private organization.

This is what these activists do--they set themselves up in supposedly good cause non-profit organizations but one sees that the "good cause" consistently consists of giving false environmental protection information that is so heavily biased against our commercial timber industry as to be totally worthless.

Case in point-the tired lie repeated over and over and over again that the timber industry is over in Humboldt County, we don't need timber industry jobs. Draper's version of the enviro mantra goes like this:

"For a while, the timber industry (like gold mining) provided good jobs. That’s over now, and the economy, the dollar and the nation are not looking so hot. Humboldt County does not need more suffering, but it may get it anyway."

It sure will if there's no timber industry jobs which follow the growth of trees here which contain some of the fastest growing conifer forests in the world. Enviros have been saying this propaganda for the past 20 years and it seems our trees don't pay attention and keep on growing.

And here's the Big Lie from political action groups pretending to be environmental protectors. The lie that old growth trees are sequestering more carbon than the commercial harvesting of old growth which automatically entails replacement by young vigorously growing, carbon trapping young conifer forests.

We don't need these liars promoting false environmental information that is serving only their funding sources where NEC and EPIC pose as "protectors of the environment". In reality, they are political action organizations that use environmental issues for throwing lawsuits at our local corporate timber industry.

These lawsuits cost all of us time and money and divert the whole of Humboldt County's environmentally conscious population from the real No. 1 ecological damage issue, the unregulated environmental negative impact of over 10,000 homesteaders in rural subdivisions such as the type Bob McKee creates. Bob, one notices right away, is the local corporate capitalist who never gets criticized directly because he provides enviro orgs with their needed donations from pot growers.

In a last flare of hypocrisy, NEC's Margaret Draper states, "I urge Mr. Campbell, now that he has left Maxxam and is working as a public official in Fortuna, to avoid using blame. It just causes more suffering. Instead of name-calling, let’s unite and protect nature — she protects us. Defeatism is a luxury we cannot afford."

Sure, let's not call names, let's be big about this, let's refrain from such gross hyperbole as Ms. Draper's accusation that old John "caused species extinction, water and air pollution and, finally, global warming. "

John Campbell and Palco caused global warming. Now we all know.