Dix vows to stop B.C. log exports
Tom Fletcher, BC Local News – April 20, 2011
NDP leader Adrian Dix plans to take “immediate steps” as premier to make sure B.C. resources are manufactured in B.C., particularly logs harvested from Crown land. Dix made the pledge in a conference call with reporters from outside the Lower Mainland Wednesday, part of a bid to win support outside the urban regions after securing the party leadership on the weekend. A succession of forest ministers have defended the B.C. Liberal government’s decision to relieve forest companies of the requirement to mill their logs locally, arguing that log exports from Crown land remain restricted, except in areas of the northwest where there are no sawmills to protect.
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