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Axed: A Decade of Cuts to BC’s Forest Service
Download 1.91 MB14 pages This study analyses the impact of cuts and changes to BC’s Forest Service over the past decade, and concludes with a call for a provincial commission…
BC Forest Service’s 100th birthday approaches: will anything be left to celebrate?
In less than two years, British Columbia’s Forest Service will reach an historic milestone, celebrating its 100th year of public service. But a growing number of former and current public…
“Living assets” are key in the fight against climate change
In the fight against climate change, few natural assets are as important as forests. Healthy living trees store enormous amounts of atmospheric carbon. The same is true of many forest…
Government must act to renew forests
BC’s modest tree-planting goals are falling far short of the need Few events offer as compelling an example of what climate change may mean for British Columbia as does the…
Shortchanged
Tallying the Legacy of Waste in BC’s Logging Industry Download 824.07 KB4 pages Attachments Letter of Complaint to the BC Forest Practices Board Shortchanged: Data Analysis of Wood Waste in…
After the Windfall
Plotting a New Course for BC Beyond the Softwood Lumber Agreement Download 968.71 KB29 pages…
Selling out the public interest on Vancouver Island forestlands
Since the heady days of the Clayoquot Sound logging blockades, few issues on Vancouver Island have triggered such public outrage as the proposed sale of thousands of hectares of forestland…
Restoring the Public Good on Private Forestlands
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Government inaction on deepening coastal crisis demands independent forestry review
Anyone who has paid attention knows that things are wrong, horribly wrong, with what was once the dominant industry on Vancouver Island and indeed coastal BC. Forest companies are shutting…
Taking the foot off the gas key to more stable climate and energy sector
It took intense pressure and heat over millions of years to turn buried plant and animal life into the natural gas that energy companies now suck out of the ground…
Foot Off the Gas
Regulating BC’s Oil and Gas Industry as if the Environment Mattered Download 643.35 KB38 pages Attachments SUMMARY: Foot Off the Gas: Regulating BC’s Oil and Gas Industry as if the…
Regulating BC’s oil and gas industry as if the environment mattered
For several years, BC has been hooked on revenues from the fossil fuel industry. Skyrocketing royalty payments to the province from companies pulling oil and natural gas out of BC’s…
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