Environmentalists are breathing a sigh of relief now that the BC government has backed off making changes to forestry licences. Ken Wu with the ancient forest alliance says part of Bill 8 would have seen the logging rights to vast sections of public land granted to private companies. "So it would have made it harder to establish new protected … [Read more...]
Changes to forest tenure rules put off
March 12, 2013 by
A major climb-down for the Liberal government today. Forests Minister Steve Thomson has deferred a plan to change forest tenure rules after criticism it would have benefitted large companies and amounted to a sweeping privatization of the land base. "That's simply one of the misperceptions that has been created out there in terms of that, … [Read more...]
