Pipelines

[Brad Sallows]

Organizations representing lumber buyers in the U.S. want cheaper wood.

Not just cheaper. For some lumber applications, the species of pine exported by Canada are preferred to some of what is commonly available in the US.

 

[Blackadder1916]

I guess I have to learn more about Big Tree Farm . . .

Big Tree Farm

U.S. Lumber Coalition

U.S. Lumber Coalition is an alliance of softwood lumber producers, timberland holders and their communities that works to address Canada's unfair trade practices.

uslumbercoalition.org

The U.S. Lumber Coalition is an alliance of large and small softwood lumber producers from around the country, joined by their employees, and woodland owners, working to address Canada’s unfair lumber trade practices.

Our goal is to serve as the voice of the American lumber community, and effectively address Canada’s unfair softwood lumber trade practices.

Our Industry and Our Communities
The U.S. lumber industry is critical to the prosperity and growth of U.S. manufacturing, local communities, and state economies nationwide. Around the country, the industry is responsible for 500 manufacturing facilities operating in the sawmill, millwork, and treating sectors. These facilities support 750,000 jobs across America, including highly-skilled jobs utilizing robotics and 3D imaging, as well as high-paying skilled jobs that don’t require college degrees and 420 million acres of family-owned timberlands.

These workers, their families, timberland owners, downstream industries and communities across the country – from Maine to Montana, to Oregon, to Florida – are the reason we advocate for fair trade policies and enforcement.

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Those damn Canadians are a threat to the American way of life.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Big Tree Farm

U.S. Lumber Coalition

U.S. Lumber Coalition is an alliance of softwood lumber producers, timberland holders and their communities that works to address Canada's unfair trade practices.

uslumbercoalition.org

The U.S. Lumber Coalition is an alliance of large and small softwood lumber producers from around the country, joined by their employees, and woodland owners, working to address Canada’s unfair lumber trade practices ...

Versus the National Association of Home Builders ....

Canadian Softwood Lumber

The United States and Canada are long-standing trade partners in softwood lumber, which is used to build the American Dream. Yet despite U.S. reliance on Canada to fully satisfy our lumber demand, there is currently no trade agreement in place.

www.nahb.org

"... Since it was founded in the early 1940s, NAHB has served as the voice of America’s housing industry. We work to ensure that housing is a national priority and that all Americans have access to safe, decent and affordable housing, whether they choose to buy a home or rent. NAHB helps its members build communities. Each year, NAHB’s members construct about 80% of the new homes built in the United States, both single-family and multifamily ..."
... and the National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association

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www.dealer.org

"... The National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA) is the recognized voice and resource of the Lumber and Building Material industry to federal legislators and regulatory agencies in Washington DC. NLBMDA provides its members the resources and education to comply with federal laws, codes, and regulations. NLBMDA identifies challenges and growth opportunities to the industry and collaborates with its Federated Association Partners to develop solutions that require national implementation ... Founded in 1917, the association represents over 6,000 member locations operating single or multiple lumber yards and component plants serving homebuilders, subcontractors, general contractors, and consumers in the new construction, repair and remodeling of residential and light commercial structures ..."

Not insignificant groups who want to see cheaper/better wood.

Those damn Canadians are a threat to the American way of life.

Right?

 

[Good2Golf]

Ontario-Quebec Dairy…

 

[The Bread Guy]

Ontario-Quebec Dairy…

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Thanks for the reminder - another "Canadian Heritage Moment" protection program supported by Teams Red, Blue and Orange ....

Seen in that perspective, I can see Big US Tree Farm worried about the market being inundated the same way Big CAN Dairy worries about cheap milk/cheese headed this way.

 

[Good2Golf]

Yup. One should always be careful for what they ask…

 

[Kirkhill]

Man overboard!!!
Davos man executes Williamson.

It shouldn’t take Tony Blair to expose the myth about green jobs

Britain cannot afford to go on indulging Miliband’s “luxury beliefs” any longer; the price is simply too high

www.telegraph.co.uk

Tony Blair’s think tank, the grandly titled Institute for Global Change, has warned in a report this week that the Government is overestimating the potential for jobs to be created in “green” industries, and that they may not replace the jobs lost in British manufacturing. The report calls for Labour to adopt a “hard-headed” approach to industrial strategy which is less reliant on the green agenda.

The report will surely be welcomed in the Treasury, and indeed by anyone in the Government who is remotely serious about trying to achieve economic growth. Far from being an engine of such growth, the net zero agenda is stifling it, closing down British industry, draining public funds and increasing costs for consumers.

The Tony Blair Institute is therefore only stating the obvious when it points out that jobs created by green initiatives will not compensate for those lost in manufacturing and related industries. But it’s not only a question of jobs lost, painful though that process has been, but the cost to the taxpayer of creating “green” employment. These costs are not just direct, in the form of state subsidies to industry to become environmentally friendly, or public sector jobs in “sustainability”, but also the indirect cost of British electricity, for both producers and consumers, leaving us all worse off.

If Tony Blair is calling for a green rethink can it be long until Mark Carney decides that he is right?

LILLEY: Carney speaks out of both sides of his mouth on pipelines

Two different languages and two very different messages on a key issue for Canada's economy in the face of Trump's tariffs.

torontosun.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

Man overboard!!!
Davos man executes Williamson.

It shouldn’t take Tony Blair to expose the myth about green jobs

Britain cannot afford to go on indulging Miliband’s “luxury beliefs” any longer; the price is simply too high

www.telegraph.co.uk

If Tony Blair is calling for a green rethink can it be long until Mark Carney decides that he is right?

LILLEY: Carney speaks out of both sides of his mouth on pipelines

Two different languages and two very different messages on a key issue for Canada's economy in the face of Trump's tariffs.

torontosun.com