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DRAX Still Sourcing from Old Growth Forests in BC

msmk89 — Fri, 03 May 2024 03:57:34 +0000

Drax Group Plc is a UK-based company that operates the world’s biggest biomass power station, and is also the world’s second biggest pellet producer, after Enviva. Drax burns pellets from its own production at Drax power station in England, and sells pellets to other companies, mostly in Japan. Drax owns seven pellet mills in British Columbia (BC) after acquiring the province’s largest pellet…

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Interior Watershed Task Force Presentation

msmk89 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:14:56 +0000

We will be doing a public presentation for the Interior Watershed Task Force on Saturday, April 13th called Primary Forests Today for Wildlife and Water Tomorrow. The event will take place in Vernon, BC. Stay tuned for more details. Is industrial forestry a threat to your local woodlands and wildlife? It’s more important than ever to learn about the measures we can take to safeguard…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework

msmk89 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:59:02 +0000

This is our letter to the Government…. To the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework team, We are a volunteer collective comprising academics, resource professionals, First Nations, forest industry workers, artists and the public. We recognize that communities of native species and their habitats have a right to coexist with humans. Employing both science and advocacy to improve…

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Pellet Logging Loopholes

msmk89 — Mon, 23 May 2022 03:09:34 +0000

Photo: inland temperate rainforest with a past western hemlock looper (native insect) outbreak in the Goat River area east of Prince George, BC From Justin Castanoso’s latest article in Mongabay: “In a surprising and unprecedented vote this week, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee recommended the scaling back of the EU’s existing subsidies incentivizing the burning of wood…

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Interior Rainforest Logging is Exacerbating Global Climate Change

msmk89 — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 02:44:21 +0000

Prince George, BC – An international team of scientists have published a new peer-reviewed study on the importance of protecting primary forests in BC’s Interior Wetbelt (IWB) bioregion for the climate. Scientists from the University of Northern British Columbia, Griffith University in Australia, the Conservation Biology Institute in Oregon, Wild Heritage in Oregon and Conservation North were…

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Pellet Company’s Anti-Competitive Practices in BC

msmk89 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:38:45 +0000

Matthew Boswell Commissioner of Competition Competition Bureau of Canada Place du Portage I 50 Victoria Street, Room C-114 Gatineau,QC K1A0C9 Dear Mr. Boswell, We write today to formally request that the Competition Bureau of Canada investigate the Drax Group’s dominant position in the wood pellet industry in British Columbia, Alberta and Canada more generally. The company has monopolized…

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Why is BC allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets?

msmk89 — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 01:21:31 +0000

Prince George, BC – A northern conservation group has confirmed that BC is currently allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets. Conservation North is calling on the BC government to stop this practice immediately. “These forests are being ground into pellets to be shipped to Europe and Asia for electricity generation. This is fueling the climate crisis and is short-sighted in this time of…

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Backgrounder on spatial deferrals in the PGTSA

msmk89 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:47:04 +0000

The FLNRORD letter What BC says modernized land use planning will look like The licensee working group What meaningful deferrals look like according to scientists TAGS: ← Previous Post Next Post →…

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Temporary Old Growth Protection for the Rainforest

msmk89 — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:55:28 +0000

Conservation North acknowledges news that the BC government will defer logging in some at-risk old growth forests in the Prince George TSA but warns that land use planning allows decision-makers to offload their responsibility for biodiversity. Prince George, BC – Conservationists in northern BC are expecting the province’s Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations…

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Deny license transfer A17007

msmk89 — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:43:00 +0000

The BC government is receiving public comment until Wednesday, March 3rd on a proposed forest license transfer in the Forest Nelson Timber Supply Area from Canfor to Peak Renewables. The transfer will enable the creation of a pellet plant that will use as its “feedstock” boreal forest that has never been logged before. There has been no official announcement from the BC government that this…

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