There’s a big economic crunch coming for northern Interior forest communities, and a small group of B.C. politicians has been tasked with figuring out how to ease the pain, or spread it around.
They have been taking a crash course in timber management for the past two weeks – “Forestry 101, 202, and 303,” Liberal MLA John Rustad called it. …The controversy over those ideas and the focus on Burns Lake, where the mill burned down and it’s an open question on whether it’s economical to rebuild it, helped spur the creation of the committee. …But it’s implicit in the terms of reference that there will less timber around in the future than there has been in the past, no matter how much mitigation is attempted.
Jun 19, 2012 Victoria Times Colonist
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