…However though MLA Pat Bell, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training agrees inventory is important, he said the timber supply is looked at every five years in the province
. …Bell added the NDP’s forest policy is shallow, and the one item they continually advocate for is increased inventory work though there is much more to the portfolio, including building markets and researching new product lines. Bell claimed the Liberal policy, built over the last 12 years, has helped draw the largest, second-largest and fifth-largest forest product manufacturers in the world to establish themselves in B.C.
Prince George Free Press
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