Managing the Cumulative Effects of Natural Resource Development in B.C

British Columbia’s auditor general says the province has failed to adequately address the long-term environmental impact of its resource-development decisions. Carol Bellringer issued a report Tuesday, saying that building roads, logging forests and exploring gas fields come with environmental, social and cultural consequences, but the government is not doing enough to consider them. Her report, Managing the Cumulative Effects of Natural Resource Development in B.C., makes nine recommendations, including giving the Forests, Lands and Resource Operations Ministry authority to manage a program that oversees the potential effects of resource projects.