Fort Nelson wants changes to the Forest Act and the ministry’s agreements with forest companies. “Changes need to be directed toward discouraging wood hoarding, greater local and First Nations involvement, flexibility and adaptability to changing realities, rewards for innovation and investment that leads towards economic diversification, and how best to repair the broken links between resources and communities reliant on their sustainable forestry development,” it said.
By Andrew MacLeod
Nov 21, 2016
The B.C. government’s management of publicly owned forests has made small communities “collateral damage” and threatened their economic sustainability, according to a municipality in the province’s northeast. “The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality… is experiencing firsthand the downside of B.C.’s forest tenure system,” said the municipality in a Nov. 15 release. The municipality, which includes Fort Nelson, said the regional economy is already suffering from the downturn in the oil and gas sector and the government is standing in the way of efforts to generate more jobs from local forests.
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