NEWS.
PRESS RELEASES.
George Abbott to Facilitate Contractor Sustainability Review
March 29, 2017, Vancouver – Following through on Premier Christy Clark’s commitment at the TLA’s 74th Annual Convention & Trade Show, the provincial government announced today that George Abbott, along with his partners [...]
TLA Finds Support for Forestry in BC’s Coastal Communities
April 3, 2017, Vancouver – Nearly 60 per cent of people living in BC’s coastal communities believe our forests are being managed sustainably, according to a new TLA report published today, A Further [...]
Coastal Communities and the Forest Industry Sign Landmark MOU Addressing Communication
April 7, 2017, Campbell River – The Truck Loggers Association commends the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities (AVICC) and the Coast Forest Products Association (CFPA) for signing a landmark memorandum of [...]
Reduced Working Forest, Not Log Exports is Killing Forestry Jobs
May 2, 2017, Vancouver – It’s election time and as if on cue that old populist punching bag issue, BC’s log exports, has been pulled out to rally the masses. Unfortunately, many of [...]
BC’s Logging Associations Meet to Discuss Contractor Sustainability
May 3, 2017, Vernon – BC’s logging associations are meeting tomorrow, in advance of the Interior Logging Association’s 59th Annual Conference & Trade Show in Vernon, to discuss contractor sustainability. “Timber harvesting contractors [...]
Three-Generation Logging Contractor Closes, Putting Vancouver Island Community in Peril
September 12, 2017, Vancouver – W.D. Moore Logging, founded in 1928, is closing its doors this month putting 25 people out of work in their community of Winter Harbour. “It was a difficult [...]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Letter to the Editor – Times Colonist, June 29, 2018
Misconception about plea for protected provincial rainforests requires correction The June 29 article, If an old-growth tree falls in a forest, does it make political hay?, reports on a letter from 223 scientists stating, [...]
Letter to the Editor – CBC, June 28, 2018
Misconception about plea for protected provincial rainforests requires correction In the June 28 article, 223 international scientists urge B.C. to protect provincial rainforests, the scientists warn that our rainforests are at risk of disappearing [...]
Letter to the Editor – Powell River Peak, March 22, 2017
Rhetoric on log exports has ramped up since they were last discussed in the Peak [“Conference pushes green economy,” December 7,] and now I must speak. Unfortunately, from the point of view of [...]
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