The focus on the pulp and paper industry (and how it has measured up to new environmental demands) has given the mining industry a small bit of breathing space and a taste of what’s coming their way. The Mining Association of British Columbia has already been warned that the industry has been earmarked for the same attention. There is one thing they can count on: environmental activists are now among the most able, professional and dedicated adversaries that industry could be required to face. Not only are they well organized, but they learn very quickly and they have a degree of public support that is staggering. When they decide to target the mining industry, it will be with an efficiency and ruthlessness that will be like a goalie’s stick to the back of the industry’s knees.
The mistakes and misjudgments of the campaign against the pulp and paper industry will have been noted and examined, and they will not be repeated. The industry will have no time to regroup; any ground they lose will be lost forever.
From an article by Moira Jackson in CRS Perspectives, a publication of the Centre for Resource Studies.
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