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A Walk in the Woods

A long-time logger I know once quipped that “greed and stupidity make a lethal cocktail and this industry’s been drinking doubles for a long time.”

Words which took on new meaning for me recently while touring two radically different forestry operations a half-hour drive’s east of Prince George, near the eastern front of the pine beetle outbreak now sweeping through Interior B.C.

$145 million and counting in compensation for "lost" timber

Forest industry sweet deal

Commentary and Fact Sheets
Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)

Spreading beetle outbreak calls for federal leadership

Commentary and Fact Sheets
Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)

Will Nova Scotia Greens be up to green challenge?

Commentary and Fact Sheets

La sécurité énergétique du Canada est en péril

Il est temps que le gouvernement Harper adopte une stratégie énergétique faite au Canada

Fuelling Fortress America

A Report on the Athabasca Tar Sands and U.S. Demands for Canada's Energy

Reports & Studies
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Canada’s energy security in jeopardy

Time for the Harper government to bring in a made-in-Canada energy strategy—report

December 2005: Our Dangerous Energy Addiction

Nuclear power badly flawed as alternative to filthy fossil fuels

The Monitor

Getting More from Our Forests

Ten Proposals for Building Stability in BC's Forestry Communities

Reports & Studies
Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)
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