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Ben Parfitt
Wood Waste and Log Exports on the BC Coast
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Over-cutting and Waste in BC’s Interior
A Call to Rethink BC’s Pine Beetle Logging Strategy Download 747.47 KB36 pages…
A tree too far
The total logging response to the pine beetle catastrophe means healthy trees are being felled with the dead ones. The policy needs rethinking. Cookie-cutter responses to big problems have a…
Securing a Sustainable Future for BC’s Forest Communities
Speech to the Stand Up for the North Conference Download 204.26 KB10 pages Excerpt: “Before talking a bit about where the opportunities lie to strengthen the hands of resource-dependent communities…
True Partners
Charting a New Deal for BC, First Nations and the Forests We Share Download 823.42 KB73 pages…
First Nations forestry accords are not creating a partnership of equals
Six years ago, anyone who said that the provincial Liberals would try to forge a “new relationship” with First Nations would have been laughed out of the room. Yet that…
Softwood Sellout
How BC Bowed to the US and Got Saddled with the Softwood Lumber Agreement Download 741.06 KB12 pages…
Softwood deal will spur more raw log exports
The recent vote in the House of Commons ratifying the softwood lumber agreement with the United States may bring temporary relief in Canada’s long running dispute with its biggest trading…
A way forward for Ontario’s forestry-dependent communities
In the past year, Queen’s Park has unveiled no less than three packages aimed at boosting the fortunes of Ontario’s forest industry. First, came $350 million in loan guarantees. Then…
Public Forests, Public Returns
A Way Forward for Ontario Download 407.71 KB 44 pages…
Coastal forest communities need a new deal
In October 2005, shareholders with one of Canada’s largest forest companies got great news. As part of a plan to redistribute Crown timber, the British Columbia government paid Canadian Forest…
A Walk in the Woods
A long-time logger I know once quipped that “greed and stupidity make a lethal cocktail and this industry’s been drinking doubles for a long time.” Words which took on new…
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