
Steven Kozuki
Forestry businesses are writing to the provincial government and opposition to “champion” better practices to protect the industry. Forestry Works of BC, a collection of businesses, details different ways the governments could implement greener practices within the industry. It asks the governments to take “specific and divisive action” to support and grow the sector. “The feeling in the industry right now, it’s financially and economically as bad as it’s ever been,” says Steve Kozuki, Executive Director of Forestry Works BC. “We’ve been under trade tariffs for quite some time, and the feeling is it would be nice to have our leaders in the province stand up for forestry.” Kozuki detailed several “key programs” the province could make a pivot within the industry and other resource sectors. Using lumbered and engineered wood that are eco-friendly for construction materials that would store and cleanse carbon dioxide.