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Changes needed to compliance and enforcement program

VICTORIA – A new report on the compliance and enforcement (C&E) program in the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development has been released. “Sufficient oversight of forestry and range activities is critical to support the environmental, social and economic values that B.C.’s forestry legislation is intended to protect,” said Kevin Kriese, Forest Practices Board chair. “We conclude that the public cannot be confident that government’s C&E framework is achieving the intended result of promoting licensee compliance with legislation. “Based on our own audit work, we believe that overall levels of compliance with forest and range legislation are fairly high. However, we found the C&E program does limited proactive monitoring of forest and range activities, or public reporting of compliance levels. Together, this makes it difficult to determine what the level of licensee compliance really is.”

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BC Forest Practices Board
April 24, 2019
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