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Actually 12 confirmed locations now!
#brokenpromisesprotest was a HUGE success. At least 800 people in Nelson, and held at another 9 or 10 locations around the province!
Listen to CBC Daybreak South interviewing Save What’s Left’s Joe Karthein before the protest:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
❤️🌲#brokenpromisesprotest
Huge Province Wide “Broken Promises Protest” for Forestry Reform November 18. See savewhatsleft.ca/protest for locations, times, and poster downloads. David Suzuki and Suzanne Simard have confirmed their attendance at the Nelson protest. #brokenpromisesprotest Share widely please!
Heck yeah! Aiming for 500 in Nelson. Suzanne Simard and David Suzuki have confirmed they will attend the Nelson locations protest! Eby has to get the message to quit pandering to industry and start pandering to the voters that elected him.
Key industry? 50,000 jobs is less than 1.5% of jobs in BC - while a bad situation for these workers, forestry is hardly the cornerstone of our economy.Tourism contributes 6x as much to BC’s GDP and creates 7x the jobs. We know who pulls the puppet strings: corporations and their lobbyist henchmen.
What is arguably both the biggest economic and environmental issue facing British Columbians? Forestry reform - or lack there of it.
This new highly readable report presents the full case against how BC Timber Sales currently operates, and presents way to fix it. savewhatsleft.ca/bcts-discuss...
Sad. But warranted. BC massively subsidizes its softwood lumber industry. Your Ministry is only marginally profitable BEFORE taking into account biodiversity losses and wildly exacerbated risks of flooding, drought and wildfire brought on by status quo clearcut logging. Tariffs are a wake up call!
Unfortunately there is only 13,750 Jesse’s left actually working in the bush. Not even 0.5% of jobs in BC. Transitioning to selective harvesting, enacting long-promised tenure reforms, and careful, labour intensive management of direct urban interface areas would wildly increase jobs.
Impressive piece of journalism.
Good… But I wish the Greens would bring up specific forestry reforms that make sense to 90% of British Columbians: Like BC Timber Sales reform, transitioning to selective harvesting, and shifting tenure from multinationals to BC-based small and medium sized and Indigenous-led forestry businesses.
100%
Great article. Thank you.
David Eby stood on stage with me in Nelson before the election touting landscape level planning as a panacea to fix ecological concerns with the forestry industry. Among the myriad of other concerns, all of the professionals I work with think LLP will take at least a decade to implement.
Watch now: Joe Karthein of @savewhatsleft.bsky.social spotlights current proposed clear cuts around the Nelson area, the current state of BC forestry practices and industry lobbying, and what's needed to force change and protect remaining primary forests in BC.
Thank you West Coast Environmental Law for your ongoing support in helping us put #BCTimberSales under a microscope. BC’s environmental AND economic future depends on it.
The Washington Post was probably the second most influential newspaper in the US. Bezo$ is firmly flushing it down the MAGA toilet. The water was still filling the toilet bowl when MSNBC barely made it to the toilet, sat down heavily, and required a double flush.
This video, first outlining BC Timber Sales logging in the Kootenays, then going into BC forestry politics may be the most important thing Save What’s Left has published so far. BC NDP have shown their cards on the environment - time to show them ours: youtu.be/RQ8g9GJgt9M
A glimmer of hope in dark times. Thomas Friedman has more geopolitical-wisdom than anyone else I know of. This is priceless commentary:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...
The weak parameters of the BCTS review, and Minister Ravi Parmar’s mandate letter, both focusing on maintaining status quo and actually increasing the amount we log in BC is low hanging fruit for BC Greens to criticize. Forest tenure reform and pushing Biodiversity Framework is the needed message.
Lots of good ammunition in this opinion piece by the UBCIC:
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
“And it means advancing only those projects that have buy-in from the people who must live with them — not pitting neighbours against each other with divisive schemes and deceptive incentives.”
I’m concerned about the lack of a formulated action-based response by the BC Green Party regarding BC NDPs about-face on anything to do with the environment. Environmental NGOs, many First Nations, and conservation-minded professionals are positively livid about the mandate letters etc. Go green!
…While the Union of BC Indian Chiefs gives Eby a much needed dressing-down:
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Powerful, powerful response by the BC Union of Indian Chiefs. Against. 100% to every point made.
“And it means advancing only those projects that have buy-in from the people who must live with them — not pitting neighbours against each other with divisive schemes and deceptive incentives.”
This little clip tells some of the story behind how I came to advocating for BC forestry reform:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x9...
