Day 058 - 30 Nov 94 - Page 07
1 A. That is when you fell the trees, you also remove all
2 the branches in the forest and leave them there. This
3 actually adds to the nitrogen in the soil and improves the
4 conditions for replanting at a later date.
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6 Q. So the potential is 480 metre cubed but you actually leave
7 48 behind ---
8 A. You leave 10 per cent, 48 behind.
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10 Q. And carry 432 away?
11 A. Correct.
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13 MR. MORRIS: So is that 10 per cent left behind figure a fairly
14 standard figure?
15 A. Yes, I think that in every instance you will find a
16 variation, but this is a general pattern and applies as a
17 normal practice in the area that we are dealing with here.
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19 Q. If we can move on to the third paragraph in the chart, the
20 total pulpwood achieved directly from 480 cubic metres each
21 year will be 178 cubic metres in your evidence?
22 A. That is correct.
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24 Q. Which will over the page produce 156 tonnes of pulpwood?
25 A. That is also correct.
26
27 Q. It says here the estimate which you quoted before of
28 1,000 tonnes -- "T" is tonnes, is it?
29 A. Tonnes, O-N-N-E.
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31 Q. 1,000 tonnes of carton board requires 1,590 tonnes of
32 pulpwood from British forests. Is that 1,590 tonnes of
33 effectively felled and thinned wood or is it 1,590 tonnes
34 of what might be characterised as what remains of the
35 pulpwood in your chart in the previous page? Do you
36 understand what I am saying is that -----
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 1590 tonnes of pulpwood has come from the
39 calculation in your original statement.
40 A. They are identical figures, my Lord.
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42 Q. Yes. That is about 10 x the 156?
43 A. That is correct. That is why he uses the figure 10.19.
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45 Q. So going back to your 40 hectare calculation, you multiply
46 it by 10.19 in order to get the area which year by year
47 would realise 1,000 metric tonnes of pulpwood?
48 A. That is exactly so.
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50 MR. MORRIS: I have not quite understood on that -- where does
51 the 178 of total pulpwood in the chart over the page, how
52 does that calculation link in when it moves on to the
53 calculation over the page about 1,590 tonnes?
54 A. I am not sure if I entirely follow your question.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We can see what you get from your 40 acres at
57 the bottom of the first page of Mr. Thompson's
58 calculation. One of the things you get is 254 cubic metres
59 of sawlogs, that is nice and square but before you turn
60 them into actual sawn wood, and you get 178 cubic metres of
