VICTORIA – Forestry giant MacMillan Bloedel is suing for environmental peace, and Interfor may soon follow.
After years of battling environmental groups over its logging practices, MacBlo is prepared ...
... he arrives in Vancouver, where he stays in a boarding house at 109 Hastings Street, then a mud road with a sawmill at one end and forestry operations at the other.
He tells of lots being sold on Granville ...
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Greenpeace and its shock troops also couldn’t have come at a better time. Clark was poised to announce his much-awaited Timber and Jobs Accord that is to create 21,000 new jobs in the forestry sector, ...
... forester who was in B.C. earlier this year, inspected a lot of forestry operations and told me that Greenpeace is wrong.
But politicians rarely listen to experts. They listen to pressure groups, and ...
... s forestry faculty.
I’m glad I’m just the moderator. As a journalist, I’m expected to know a little about a hell of a lot of subjects, while being an expert at none. These guys are pros.
The night befor ...
... was to set British Columbia on the path of sustainable forestry. The process has been and still is painful. A lot of people have lost their jobs in the transition.
Still, about 300,000 people in Bri ...
... about nine per cent of British Columbians rank fisheries, including shrinking salmon stock, as high on their list of environmental issues, compared with 33 per cent who expressed alarm over forestry-related ...
VICTORIA – Fish farming will soon join forestry as a battle ground between government, industry and environmentalists.
A comprehensive Environmental Assessment Report on the state of fish farming in ...
... g Planet Earth, and I wouldn’t want the industry to return to its rapacious ways of old.
I am neither an environmental nor a forestry expert. I don’t have the answers. But if I were premier, I would ma ...
... fund to the government, some form of legislative blessing is needed, because Forest Renewal revenues, paid for by the forest industry, can now be spent only on forestry-related projects in communitie ...
... that, they need green timber.
A small, independent operator, on the other hand, can turn burnt wood into anything from kitchen cabinets to house logs, from furniture to two-by-fours.
Forestry is still ...
VICTORIA -- The New Zealand forestry giant Fletcher Challenge isn't the only company wanting to expand its British Columbia empire. It also isn't the only company running into stiff opposition.
CIP In ...
... a genuinely nice guy. But Toovey isn't only a nice guy; he's also very knowledgeable and competent in his field. He's vice president in charge of timberlands and forestry for Fletcher Challenge. Fle ...
... 23 may be remembered as the day a New Zealand-based forestry giant gained control over a vast land area in north-eastern British Columbia. It may be remembered as the day the Social Credit government sacrificed ...
... 0 members, is in it for keeps.
In a widely--distributed letter, Eugene Rogers, chairman of the federation's forestry committee, accused the pro-logging forces of contaminating the debate over the fut ...
... ast election. Much of Bruce's popularity is due to his role in a forestry program that was aimed at putting thousands of people on Vancouver Island to work. The program, which enjoyed the backing of most V ...
... ocred administration.
The NDP government bought Canadian Cellulose for $1 and the Ocean Falls forestry operations for $789,000. They both turned a profit and preserved jobs.
The NDP government bought ...
... , and an opposition which often placed emotionalism before reason. The two most important changes in the government's forestry policy are a substantial increase in stumpage fees and shift of responsibil ...