Give Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams credit for leading by example and doing what no BC politician in recent years had the guts to do: force the issue on what, exactly, the public deserves by way of public returns from publicly owned resources. Williams’ well publicized decision in December to yank back AbitibiBowater’s public timber and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'forestry'
Where’s Our Danny Boy?
February 23rd, 2009 · Ben Parfitt · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability
Tags: Danny Williams·forestry·free trade·Mackenzie·Newfoundland·pulp and paper
Time to take the axe to province’s dubious forest-related budget projections
February 19th, 2009 · Ben Parfitt · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Environment, resources & sustainability
Two words sprang to mind this week when perusing the provincial government’s latest revenue projections from BC’s once healthy, wealth-producing forests – confusing and misleading. Confusing because Finance Minister Colin Hansen projected that forest revenues will go up next year when all signs point the other way. And misleading because even a cursory review of [...]
Tags: budget·forestry·pine beetle
It’s about jobs
February 13th, 2009 · Karen Cooling · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability
Next week the provincial government releases their budget and I am looking for something, anything at all, for forest workers.Now I hate to be a total whiner, but since 2001, BC has lost 65 sawmills, four pulp mills and about 20,000 jobs in the forest industry. With the spin-off effect of about 1 to 3, [...]
Tags: budget·EI·forestry·unemployment
