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Resource Economics Project (BC)
Investing causes of social and environmental insecurity in resource-dependent communities
The B.C. Office’s Resource Economics Project is a special research desk staffed by award-winning journalist and researcher Ben Parfitt. This environmental justice initiative looks into the causes of economic and social insecurity in B.C.’s resource-dependent communities. It offers policy solutions aimed at meeting the joint challenges of environmental sustainability, jobs and social justice.
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BC forestry missing out on great green job potential
Ever since US house prices peaked in mid 2006 and the great economic slump began south of the border, BC’s government and forest industry alike…
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BC missing out on greener, more sustainable jobs for forest industry, report finds
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – Despite having the richest forest resources in Canada, BC lags well behind other provinces in generating jobs making…
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Cuts to Forest Service are too deep
There are many things that distinguish “supernatural” British Columbia from other jurisdictions. But one of the most enduring of them is its abundance of publicly…
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BC’s Forest Service jeopardized by deep cuts: time for a formal inquiry
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–A decade of layoffs and budget cuts, combined with the recent radical cabinet reorganization, have so thoroughly gutted BC’s Forest…
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Axed: A Decade of Cuts to BC’s Forest Service
Download 1.91 MB14 pages This study analyses the impact of cuts and changes to BC’s Forest Service over the past decade, and concludes with a…
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Mountain Pine Beetle and Forest Carbon in BC
https://vimeo.com/8623368 Mountain pine beetle attacks have decimated BC’s pine forests, seriously damaging their ability to store carbon and protect against global warming. An effective response…
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Shortchanged
Tallying the Legacy of Waste in BC’s Logging Industry Download 824.07 KB4 pages Attachments Letter of Complaint to the BC Forest Practices Board Shortchanged: Data…
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Shortchanged
https://vimeo.com/3842584 A short video featuring CCPA resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt discussing findings showing that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot…
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Selling out the public interest on Vancouver Island forestlands
Since the heady days of the Clayoquot Sound logging blockades, few issues on Vancouver Island have triggered such public outrage as the proposed sale of…
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Restoring the Public Good on Private Forestlands
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Forest Land Reserve urgently needed to counter unsustainable logging rates and massive sell-off of Vancouver Island forestlands: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VICTORIA — Logging rates and forestland sales by the three largest private forestland owners on southern Vancouver Island…
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