{"id":58101,"date":"2021-06-02T06:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58101"},"modified":"2021-06-02T06:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:05:51","slug":"bcs-intentions-paper-on-future-of-forests-is-panned-for-lack-of-specifics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58101","title":{"rendered":"BC\u2019s \u2018Intentions Paper\u2019 on Future of Forests Is Panned for Lack of Specifics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BC\u2019s \u2018Intentions Paper\u2019 on Future of Forests Is Panned for Lack of Specifics<\/a><\/h3>\n

Greens say failure to protect old growth breaks NDP campaign promise as protests continue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Fairy Creek protests show the government\u2019s policies on old-growth logging don\u2019t reflect the will of British Columbians, says Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee.\u00a0Photo by Jen Osborne.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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As soon as the British Columbia government released what Premier John Horgan said was a new vision for forestry in the province, critics panned it as a status quo document that fails to protect any more old growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what they\u2019re thinking, frankly,\u201d said Torrance Coste, national campaign director for the Wilderness Committee advocacy group. \u201cThey don\u2019t want to take meaningful action because they\u2019re worried about the consequences of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 28-page\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0\u201cModernizing Forest Policy in British Columbia: Setting the Intention and Leading the Forest Sector Transition\u201d sets out 20 \u201cpolicy intentions,\u201d many of which have been talked about for decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur forests are foundational to our economy and a way of life for British Columbians,\u201d it said. \u201cB.C.\u2019s forestry policy framework, put in place nearly two decades ago, is inadequate to address today\u2019s challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

It includes policies aimed at redistributing forest tenure as a step towards diversifying the ownership of companies in the sector, particularly with an eye to increasing Indigenous participation. Other policies are aimed at improving the oversight over log exports, using managed burns and giving the forests minister and government more discretion over certain decisions.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a policy to \u201cPromote the use of wood and mass timber,\u201d one to \u201cStrengthen compliance and enforcement\u201d and another to \u201cProtect good jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coste said that on a first read there\u2019s little to object to in the government\u2019s policy intentions themselves. \u201cOn the surface they look OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

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BC\u2019s \u2018Intentions Paper\u2019 on Future of Forests Is Panned for Lack of Specifics Greens say failure to protect old growth breaks NDP campaign promise as protests continue. Fairy Creek protests show the government\u2019s policies on old-growth logging don\u2019t reflect the will of British Columbians, says Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee.\u00a0Photo by Jen Osborne. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11645,94,103,7540,379,5499],"class_list":["post-58101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-andrew-macleod","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-forestry","tag-government","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58102,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58101\/revisions\/58102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}