New law will govern B.C. backroads – Kelowna Capital News – December 13, 2011 Backroads and logging roads will soon be terms of the past in B.C. under a proposal for a new Natural Resource Road Act. Feedback on the proposed new legislation is being accepted until Thursday, although it’s not expected the new act will be in force for more than a year.
Industrial users such as logging companies have already held discussions with government over the new proposal, which would consolidate 11 current pieces of legislation affecting ‘resource roads’ into one. According to the discussion paper on the new legislation, dated November this year, the act would provide common requirements and responsibilities regarding the construction, maintenance and use of resource roads in a way that’s reasonable and fair for all concerned, with consideration for the public interest and the environment.
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