“We need the CCPA to remind us that our dreams of a decent, egalitarian society are reasonable — indeed that with a little work, they are practical. And I love that practicality, that protection of the dream of the possible.”
— Naomi Klein
Issue(s): Environment and sustainability
Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)
January 20, 2005
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About this Publication
In his speech to the Western Silvicultural Contractors Association in Prince George, Ben Parfitt shows that British Columbia must:
- put the proper resources into researching the beetle attack that has overrun millions of hectares of the province's forestlands;
- adequately fund the work required to figure out a comprehensive and effective response to the unfolding calamity;
- collect the most basic information on what has been lost as a result of the ongoing attack; and
- properly fund a reforestation plan that both helps to ensure that we address a looming timber supply gap, and adequately conserves Interior forests and grasslands in ways that help to create healthier pine-dominated landscapes in the years ahead.