VICTORIA, B.C. – In response to a Stand.Earth report finding ongoing logging in old growth deferral areas, the B.C. Green Caucus has issued the following statement:

VICTORIA, B.C. –  Today the B.C. NDP announced their intention to work on deferrals of old-growth logging.

VICTORIA, B.C. – B.C. Green Party leader MLA Sonia Furstenau for Cowichan Valley tabled a Stand.Earth petition with the signatures of 52,204 British Columbians calling for the government to keep its promises to implement deferrals on old-growth logging. This comes as the Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development failed to announce promised deferrals this summer. 

VICTORIA, B.C. - The B.C. Green Caucus has issued the following statement in response to Justice Thompson’s ruling against extending the injunction at Fairy Creek:

“With over 1,000 arrests, Fairy Creek is the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, and I am relieved to see the court reject the request to extend the injunction,” said B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau, MLA for Cowichan Valley.

VICTORIA, B.C. – One year after the B.C. government released the Old Growth Strategic Review report and promised transformational change in old growth management, arrests at Fairy Creek have surpassed arrests made at the Clayoquot Sound dispute in 1993. It is now the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. 

VICTORIA B.C. – Today in the legislature, B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau introduced a B.C. Green Party petition to protect old-growth forests with 30,151 signatures from British Columbians. 

This comes 12 years after then-opposition MLA John Horgan and six other B.C. NDP MLAs introduced petitions to protect old-growth forests and ban raw log exports in 2009. Since 2009, BC NDP MLAs have introduced at least 12 separate old-growth petitions, including twice in 2019 while in government.

VICTORIA, B.C. - Sonia Furstenau, leader of the BC Greens and MLA for Cowichan Valley, and Adam Olsen, MLA for Saanich North and the Islands, have issued the following statement in response to Squamish Nation calling on the provincial government to halt old-growth logging in their traditional territories.

VICTORIA, B.C. - The province has approved the request by Huu-ay-aht, Ditidaht, and Pacheedaht First Nations to defer old-growth logging for two years in the Fairy Creek and the Central Walbran.

VICTORIA, B.C. –  Sonia Furstenau, leader of the B.C. Greens and MLA for Cowichan Valley, and Adam Olsen, MLA for Saanich North and the Islands have issued the following statement in response to today’s release of an intentions paper on forest policy:

“Thousands of British Columbians are showing up to protest the B.C. NDP’s lack of protection of our ancient forests. People want to see this government step up and recognize the urgency of the moment we are in. This lack of leadership betrays the trust that people put in John Horgan and the NDP when they promised to protect old growth during the 2020 election,” said MLA Furstenau.

VICTORIA, B.C. - Sonia Furstenau, leader of the BC Greens and MLA for Cowichan Valley, and Adam Olsen, MLA for Saanich North and the Islands, have issued the following statement in response to analysis from independent scientists that lays out where immediate old growth logging deferrals need to take place.