METCHOSIN  B.C. – Today, Leader Sonia Furstenau outlined the B.C. Greens’ plan for sustainable forestry, with candidate for Esquimalt-Metchosin, former forest biologist and current Metchosin Counsellor Andy Mackinnon. 

VICTORIA, B.C. — The B.C. Green caucus finds government’s announcement that it is moving to protect just 54 old-growth trees on the B.C. Big Tree Registry inadequate given the ongoing, unsustainable logging of old-growth across the province. 

VICTORIA, B.C. — Today at the Legislature, forestry and community stakeholders joined the B.C. Greens in calling for a moratorium to protect Vancouver Island’s vital old-growth ecosystems and to develop more sustainable forest practices that B.C. can depend on for generations to come.

VICTORIA, B.C. — The next edition of the BC Building Code will promote value-added forest industry while acting on climate change and creating new jobs across the province. In other words, this is CleanBC in action.

VICTORIA, B.C. – In response to the announcement of policy reforms in the forestry sector today the B.C. Green caucus issued the following statement:

KAMLOOPS B.C. – Andrew Weaver, leader of the B.C. Green Party, released the B.C. Green Party Strategy to Build Resilience today in Kamloops. The plan focuses on sustainable management of the province’s natural resources sector.

The Throne Speech 2017 provides a few passing sentences about BC forestry and the government’s approach in the coming year and beyond. On reading these few words, one would come away with the impression that the key problem facing the industry is access to the US market and the softwood lumber agreement.  All the actions highlighted were limited to one area: finding markets for BC’s exports.  Yes, this is one of the issues facing the forestry sector. Yet what is avoided are the biggest issues facing forestry in BC. The government is looking outwards at foreign markets when most of the ills lie within the sector and how the BC Liberals have adjusted the rules of the game. Our forestry sector requires an extensive reconsideration and revitalization.