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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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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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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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We’re Seeing Red

msmk89 — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:51:47 +0000

“They are the first tools of their kind made by the public for the public,” explains Conservation North’s outreach coordinator Jenn Matthews. “The cumulative impacts of industrial forestry and other forms of land conversion, such as agriculture and road development, have never been displayed for public view before now, despite the fact that the vast majority are occurring on public lands.

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Moratorium on primary forest logging in the PG TSA now

msmk89 — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:56:07 +0000

Prince George, BC – A northern conservation group is calling for a moratorium on primary forest logging in the Prince George Timber Supply Area following the release of an investigative report by the Forest Practices Board (‘the Board’). The Board concluded that biodiversity is at high risk in the vast majority of landscape units within the District and has recommended that old growth be promptly…

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BC Government Ignores Science in their Old Growth Announcement

msmk89 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:20:10 +0000

Prince George, BC – Northern BCers are unimpressed by the government’s announcement on old growth forests last week. The province announced nine general locations where they will temporarily defer logging of old growth. “None of the temporary area deferrals are in our endangered northern rainforests. In other words, they seem to have completely ignored the science,” explains Jenn Matthews of…

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Enough is Enough

msmk89 — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:09:08 +0000

Conservation North hosted Enough is Enough on Thursday at Trench Brewing. Special thanks to Peter Ewart of Stand Up for the North and James Steidle of Stop the Spray BC. Watch the video below. Our recommendations for Interior Forestry Renewal are here. 0:00 Peter Ewart, Stand Up for the North 7:08 James Steidle, Stop the Spray BC 17:36 Michelle Connolly, Conservation North 24:32 Questions 47:28…

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Interior Forestry Renewal

msmk89 — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:19:30 +0000

The BC government is soliciting feedback on revitalizing the forest industry in the Interior. We believe that the policy changes suggested below can support true community and ecological sustainability. All of our suggestions pertain to northern wetbelt forests, also known as the boreal and inland rainforests. The Dean of Forestry at UBC says we should do better with the forests we’ve already…

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No Habitat Protection for Caribou, Just more Dead Wolves and Cougars

msmk89 — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:40:06 +0000

This letter from the BC Government to “targeted stakeholders” was sent to Conservation North by a concerned citizen: predator reduction letter-all-final Some excerpts: “While herd planning is the preferred comprehensive method for engagement on caribou recovery, it is time consuming” “Although landscape scale habitat management is needed to support self-sustaining caribou populations…

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It’s About Forest Not Trees

msmk89 — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:43:13 +0000

Letter in the Times Colonist As a conservation group based in Prince George, we are concerned that BC’s “Big Tree Policy” is a cynical calculation to avoid the protection of old growth at a scale that is necessary to avoid ecological collapse. Protecting individual trees does little to protect the values that exist in our interior old growth forests. A few big trees do not a forest make.

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