British Columbia’s logging practices are excoriated in a new report from the Forest Practices Board, a watchdog organization. The report claims that endangered species like marbled murrelets are victims of forest policy that makes cutting the first priority and habitat conservation a distant second.
Cutting Before Conservation in BC
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Eric de Place
Eric de Place, former director of the Thin Green Line program, spearheaded Sightline’s work on energy policy for two decades. A leading expert on coal, oil, and gas export plans in the Pacific Northwest, he is considered an authority on a range of issues connected to fossil fuel transport, including carbon emissions, local pollution, transportation system impacts, rail policy, and economics.
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