Costs include thousands of potential jobs, sharply higher CO2 emissions: report
March 25, 2009 |
BC Office
(Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest industry finds that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of forestry jobs and big increases in greenhouse gas emissions.
Shortchanged: Tallying the Legacy of Waste in BC’s Logging Industry, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), looks at usable wood and logs abandoned in each of BC’s 29 forest districts over the five years ending in 2008.