Canfor mill closures spur calls for government action. They include:
- Vancouver Sun’s Derrick Penner: BC communities eye difficult transitions
- COFI’s Linda Coady: Closures underscore need for action to address root causes
- Steelworkers’ Jeff Bromley: Union is devastated. Say Canfor should lose tenures
- Conservative leader John Rustad: NDP forest policies blamed for mill closures
- First Nation Chief Colleen Erickson: Government leaders knew this was coming
- Spar Tree’s David Elstone: Canfor move a premonition of something worse
In other Business news: Tolko curtails logging to get inventories in line; Jasper’s wildfire will cost insurers $880 million; and CN Rail loses appeal of BC wildfire penalty.
In other news: FPAC responds to ENGO report of forest carbon emissions; BC’s forest watchdog releases report on Quadra Island old-growth; Oregon targets forest for wildfire reform; and understanding carbon-water tradeoffs in the Pacific Northwest.
Finally, four aged and scarred reformers ruminate over the future of BC’s forested lands.
Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor