7 big environmental decisions facing the B.C. government in 2025

By Shannon Waters
The Narwhal
January 8, 2025
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West
  1. Decision looms on Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline. 
  2. Ksi Lisims: a big LNG export facility decision is at hand 
  3. Will Fairy Creek get permanent protection in 2025? …last fall, the NDP promised to continue work to fulfill the recommendations from its 2020 old-growth forest strategic review, which called for a major shift in how B.C. manages its forests. According to a May update, only two of the old-growth review’s 14 recommendations were at an advanced stage of implementation, while nearly half  were still in the “initial action” stage. 
  4. Changes to B.C.’s mineral claim staking system are pending 
  5. Will BC Hydro be allowed to dodge a transmission line  environmental assessment? 
  6. What about the BC NDP’s promise to protect nature? 
  7. Wheels to start turning on a review of B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Act

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