Iain Rankin

Nova Scotia’s new premier-designate Iain Rankin has already indicated his strong support for forestry management and for green policies. He is developing an economic recovery policy model framed around the environment. Rankin has promised to implement the recommendations of the Lahey Report on forestry practices, which advocates among other things, a drastic reduction in clear-cutting practices in forest management.The McNeil government had been slow to implement the recommendations in the Lahey report, which called to protect some 17 per cent of the land in the province. But Nova Scotia will be able to meet only a 13 per cent protection target of the province’s land. Pressure to do so has come from the United Nations as well as from the United States, where President Joe Biden has ambitiously pledged to protect some 30 per cent of U.S. land. [We respect the copyrights of the source publication – full access to this story may require a subscription]