B. C. Premier David Eby and his timber secretary were in Prince George on Friday, where they sought to ensure the country’s forest industry as business tensions with the U. S. ratchet away. American forestry was spared in President Donald Trump’s latest round of taxes, but softwood lumber could still see duties wave as the U. S. launches what it calls a “national security analysis” into Canada’s forest practices. 1: 54
B. C. leading in Prince George showing aid for wood hardwood industrySpeaking at the Council of Forest Industries on Friday, Eby and Forests Minister Ravi Parmar pledged to boost the industry’s exposure to wooden fibre and to safeguard jobs. ” Premier Eby and our government have thrown the full weight of British Columbia in the rink to protect B. C. jobs, our sector and its workers that’s why one of the first actions I took as minister of forests I brought together a softwood lumber advisory council to protect workers form unfair duties and to develop solutions to provide support and mitigate the impacts during these unprecedented times”, Parmar told delegates. 1: 29
3 reasons B. C. premier is’ anxious’ about softwood lumber industryA major part of that program is an overhaul to BC Timber Sales, a government agency that manages a fifth of B. C.’s allowable annual cut on Crown land. Eby said the agency is being retooled to better connect raw inputs, workers and mills. BC Timber Sales will also be involved in expanding the province’s “working forest base” to 45 million cubic metres, a figure the industry says “allows sustainable forest jobs into the future”, Eby added. ” To make sure we are accessing fibre through better management of our forests, through commercial thinning, through addressing wildfire areas and clearing fuel out of the forests”, Eby said. 4: 41
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” That also helps pulp mills and maybe it helps jobs “.It’s a move that has conservationists concerned. Michelle Connolly with Conservation North alleged the province is using the cover of” so-called wildfire resilience” to open parks and old-growth forests to expanded logging. 5: 01
Canada’s auto sector feels immediate impact of Trump tariffs” Minister Parmar promoted the notion that all natural forests including old growth require logging in order to be resilient, which is one of the most Orwellian, clown-world statements one could make about natural forests and nature”, she said. ” The overwhelming driver of fires is climate change, and given that industrial logging is the third highest emitter in B. C. after oil and gas and transformation, you’d think this would have come up … but it did not “.Along with the changes to BC Timber Sales, the province has unveiled a$ 10 million diversification fund aimed at finding new markets to sell forestry products, along with measures to fast-track the breakdown of interprovincial trade barriers. &, copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
