A change in government has done little to alter B.C.’s environmental path GlobeBC
“We have this consistent pattern of business as usual,” he said in an interview. The province’s timber-sales agency is putting up for auction this year more than 1,300 hectares of old growth on Vancouver Island – mostly forests that predate Confederation. On the Sunshine Coast, cedars estimated to be more than 1,000 years old will be on the block by next year.
The changes fall short of Auditor-General Carol Bellringer’s recommendations to eliminate the conflict inherent in having compliance and enforcement rest with the ministry that promotes mining development. On Thursday, legislators – with the exception of B.C.'s three Green MLAs – voted to approve a tax credit for major LNG projects that is tailored to the $40-billion LNG Canada development – a project that will generate, in Phase One, 3.4 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.
“The NDP is a complicated party. They got people on both sides of the spectrum on resource extraction and the environment," Mr. Boon noted. “The so-called brown side of the NDP won the battle of the day.”
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