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The BC government’s updated climate (non-)plan: This is not leadership
Today, after many months of delay (on a Friday afternoon in summer), the BC government finally released an updated “Climate Leadership Plan.” Except it isn’t one.…
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CCPA submission to BC consultation on forest tenures
Earlier today, I submitted the following on behalf of the CCPA to Mr Jim Snetsinger, who is leading a consultation on area-based forest tenures on…
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That sinking feeling: BC’s forests and CO2 emissions
As everyone knows, BC has a lot of trees. From a climate change perspective the nice thing about trees (forests, really) is that they suck…
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Oh, about that recession …
BC’s recession started in 2008. That is the upshot of today’s release of Statistics Canada’s Provincial Economic Accounts, which provides the first estimates of BC’s…
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A whole lotta waste goin’ on
Last week, research I completed for the CCPA was released suggesting that in the last five years alone the forest industry in this province has…
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Following the money in BC communities
It is one of those publications that few media outlets will report on, and even fewer British Columbians will read, but BC Stats just released…
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Bioenergy – Catching on like a house on fire or set for slow burn?
As the global economic meltdown and in particular the US housing market collapse continues to savage BC lumber producers, government leaders boldly predict that wood-fired…
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First Nations as forest partners may be Roundtable’s most significant recommendation
There’s plenty to be concerned about with the recommendations emanating from the Working Roundtable on Forestry – an open door for raw log exports, diminished…
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Pining for some straight talk
BC Forests Minister Pat Bell grabbed plenty of headlines this week when he said that the threats posed to resource communities by the mountain pine…
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Memo to Colin Hansen: Time for forest industry reality check
If Finance Minister Colin Hansen’s budget forecasts are right, British Columbia’s battered forest industry is in for a modest recovery this coming fiscal year and…
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Axing the Forest Service: The Cuts Continue
Well it looks like they’re getting ready to wield the axe yet again at the Ministry of Forests, and that the latest victims will join…
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“The (not so) slow de-industrialization of the province”
Yesterday, Catalyst Paper announced the closure of the Crofton kraft pulp mill, a week after shutting the doors at its 350-employee mill in Campbell River…
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