Vancouver Sun
The Ministry of Forests Land and Natural Resource Operations’ enforcement staff should consider attaching stiffer penalties to administrative actions against companies that violate regulations, the province’s forest-industry watchdog says. It also suggested that the Ministry of Forests publish its determinations to make them more of a deterrent. The B.C. Forest Practices Board highlighted the findings of a special investigation it conducted of the Ministry of Forests’ administrative proceedings against contraventions of legislation and regulations between 2009 and 2014, which found that fewer than 10 per cent of 146 cases saw violators receive the maximum fine. …“It is a matter of priority,” Tim Ryan said, “and if we’re serious about enforcement, then this is one of the tools that’s necessary.”
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