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Restoring Forestry in BC

16 Jan 2018

Restoring Forestry in BC The story of the industry’s decline and the case for regional management BY BOB WILLIAMS January 2018 RESTORING FORESTRY IN BC The story of the industry’s decline and the case for regional management by Bob Williams January 2018 ABOUT THE AUTHOR BOB WILLIAMS was Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources in the BC government of Dave Barrett (1972–75) and Deputy Minist [...] As the number In the four years beginning in 2013, the government allowed 26 million cubic metres of raw logs of mills on the to be exported from BC, the highest four-year tally in provincial history.11 coast has fallen I would suggest that the real business plan for our forest corporations has been, for decades, to precipitously, the be the real landlord, the real rent collector of our public res [...] If the companies then decide to get out of the two-by-four business, a low-value commodity, they sell the business but attach a value to the uncollected rent that the government has left on the table. [...] The goal of corporate On April 15, 2014, Don Kayne, the president and CEO of Canfor Corporation, wrote a letter to proponents in the the Vancouver Sun in which he noted the Interior forest sector was undergoing a significant trans- Interior is to expand formation in the wake of the mountain pine beetle epidemic, and “In our view, this is absolutely their landlord rights not the time for major chan [...] The unallocated timber in the Kimsquit Valley was put up for bid by the new government, and Doman Industries won the bid with the promise of a new pulp mill in Nanaimo.
environment forests economics economy decentralization natural resources management forestry human resources logging lumber silviculture bc human activities british columbia columbia river treaty columbia river economic rent stumpage fees powell river company
ISBN
9781771253680
Pages
36
Published in
Ottawa, ON, CA

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