Sheila Harrington

The B.C. government, under Premier David Eby, is putting the future health and well-being of all British Columbians at risk. Forests Minister Ravi Parmar and the NDP government have approved logging of two old-growth areas on Vancouver Island, and are planning yet a third. On the Sunshine Coast, where recreation and tourism bring in more than logging, they are auctioning off another 100 areas. Despite receiving thousands of letters and submissions protesting the logging, one of these approvals was given to Teal Jones to log millennia-old yellow cedars near the ridge of Fairy Creek … on southern Vancouver Island. …If we are short-sighted and do not protect nature, we risk huge economic burdens and ecological consequences: The destruction of watersheds and clean water, erosion of land and roads, fires, loss of a tourism and recreational economy, and many lives. We must act now to protect B.C.’s forests, which are the foundation of our economy.