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Pellet logging loopholes
From Justin Castanoso's latest article in Mongabay: "In a surprising and unprecedented vote this week, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee recommended the scaling back of the EU’s existing subsidies incentivizing the burning of wood pellets, replacing coal...
Interior rainforest logging is exacerbating global climate change
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4020https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4020 Prince George, BC – An international team of scientists have published a new peer-reviewed study on the importance of protecting primary...
Pellet company’s anti-competitive practices in BC
February 16, 2022 Matthew Boswell Commissioner of Competition Competition Bureau of Canada Place du Portage I50 Victoria Street, Room C-114 Gatineau,QC K1A0C9 Subject: Drax Group’s anti-competitive practices in British Columbia’s and Canada’s wood pellet...
Why is BC allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets?
Watch the video here. Send an email to decision-makers here. Prince George, BC - A northern conservation group has confirmed that BC is currently allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets. Conservation North is calling on the BC government to stop this...
Backgrounder on spatial deferrals in the Prince George Timber Supply Area
FLNRORD will defer logging in some high risk old growth in the Prince George Timber Supply Area according to a recent letter to the Forest Practices Board. Here is some background on how this came to be. The Biodiversity Order In the Prince George Timber Supply...
Temporary old growth protection for the rainforest
".FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2021 Conservation North acknowledges news that the BC government will defer logging in some at-risk old growth forests in the Prince George TSA but warns that land use planning allows decision-makers to offload their responsibility for...
Deny licence transfer A17007
The BC government is receiving public comment until Wednesday, March 3rd on a proposed forest license transfer in the Forest Nelson Timber Supply Area from Canfor to Peak Renewables. The transfer will enable the creation of a pellet plant that will use as its...
We’re Seeing Red
Prince George, BC - A forest-focused conservation group in northern BC has released both the first province-wide cumulative impacts map and the first visual account of our last remaining old growth forests. “They are the first tools of their kind made by the public...
Moratorium on primary forest logging in the PG TSA now
Prince George, BC - A northern conservation group is calling for a moratorium on primary forest logging in the Prince George Timber Supply Area following the release of an investigative report by the Forest Practices Board (‘the Board’). The Board concluded that...
BCTS suspends logging plans
Following massive public backlash, BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has suspended plans to log endangered caribou habitat in an area of rainforest north of Revelstoke, BC. BCTS had planned to auction off 11 cutblocks — an area totalling 276 hectares — and build 10 more...