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Tallying the Legacy of Waste in BC's Logging Industry

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Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)

A short video featuring CCPA resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt discussing findings showing 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.

Video by Goh Iromoto. Photos by Garth Lenz.

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Tallying the Legacy of Waste in BC's Logging Industry
by Ben Parfitt
March 25, 2009 | BC Office

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