. In doing so, the government is putting the province’s major forest companies on notice that existing timber tenures are no longer assured.began a third week of arrests at a simmering protest over old-growth logging in and around Fairy Creek on southern Vancouver Island. The provincial government promises to squeeze more jobs out of a declining number of trees, and increase penalties for bad actors, but it will not end the practice of harvesting ancient forests.
Legislative changes will be introduced in the fall. Mr. Horgan was unapologetic that large forestry tenure holders can expect a smaller share of the harvest. “I’ve been looking at investments that have been made by many of the majors over the past number of years, and they have not been in British Columbia,” he said. “The forests are on public lands, they belong to the people of B.C., they belong to the Indigenous communities where they’re growing.
The government’s intentions paper, titled Modernizing Forest Policy in British Columbia, concludes that B.C. is not realizing the full value and potential for jobs from its forest resources, in part because the existing value-added sector in British Columbia cannot get access to enough fibre supply. “The goal is to ensure local communities, including Indigenous communities, have opportunities to benefit from the resources coming from their own backyards,” the paper states.
It is a slow-paced transition that is frustrating environmental activists who see the climate crisis and loss of biodiversity through a more urgent lens. More than 140 people have been arrested since May 18 at the Fairy Creek blockades. The policy reforms unveiled Tuesday by Mr. Horgan will not appease those who want a moratorium on old-growth logging.
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I hope this means that the province will plant the areas that have been burnt. The Kelowna and Barriere fires happened 20 plus years ago. They still haven't been planted!