Bc Logging

• ‘Not a nickel’: Workers allege cuts to B.C. Interior logging pension plan

  The Interior Lumberman's Pension Plan was set up in the '70s for employees of smaller, non-unionized forestry sector companies in the B.C. Interior.

  Canada

  Feb 1, 2024
  
• Sustainable logging will safeguard against flood risks: UBC researchers

  Dr. Younes Alila and his graduate student Henry Pham found that the “severely and consistently underestimated” impact of forest cover greatly affects B.C. flood risks.

  Environment

  Jan 25, 2024
  
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• B.C. moves to reduce raw log exports, boost higher value wood manufacturing

  The Independent Wood Processors Association of B.C. says restricting raw lumber exports will create opportunities for higher-value manufacturing.

  Politics

  Dec 5, 2023
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• Conservationists rap B.C. for ‘significant loophole’ in old-growth protection

  "The misclassification of some forests as being younger than they are (is) causing them to fall through the cracks," says TJ Watt, a campaigner with the Ancient Forest Alliance.

  Environment

  Oct 27, 2023
• B.C. introduces crowd sourcing mechanism to protect old growth forests, more habitat

  The government says $150 million will leverage further donations in a crowd-sourcing approach, encouraging other organizations and people to contribute to ecosystem protection.

  Environment

  Oct 26, 2023
• Months after sawmill shutdown, Canfor plans to build new $200M-facility in Houston, B.C.

  A statement from Canfor says the company will spend about $200 million to build the "low cost, high efficiency" facility with site preparation scheduled for next spring.

  Politics

  Sep 14, 2023
• B.C.’s wildfire crisis was forecast, but it arrived decades sooner than expected

  The warming and drying trend that began in the mid-2000s coincided with pine beetle outbreaks that left swaths of B.C.'s forests dead, dry, brittle and ripe for wildfire.

  Fire

  Sep 11, 2023
• ‘Should have never happened’: B.C. MLA shocked with Indigenous band clearcutting

  B.C. MLA Mike Morris has serious concerns with overlogging in B.C., especially with an area north of Prince George.

  Economy

  Jul 13, 2023
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• B.C. extends order to stop old-growth logging in Fairy Creek watershed

  Between 2020 and last year, Fairy Creek was the site of what's considered the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, with more than 1,000 protesters arrested.

  Environment

  Jun 2, 2023
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• Fairy Creek old growth protesters celebrate as contempt prosecution has ‘collapsed’

  The Crown is expected to withdraw charges against as many as 150 people, according to a lawyer representing the Fairy Creek protesters.

  Environment

  Apr 18, 2023