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Environmental Policy Roll Backs

All forests in British Columbia, including the Great Bear Rainforest, are coming under increasing threat due to the anti-environmental actions of the current BC government. Since entering office in 2001, the Provincial Liberals have consistently rolled back environmental protection, including lowering the standards for pulp mill pollution and handing over accountability to logging corporations with results-based forest management legislation.

And while this clearly increases the need for public eyes in our forests, the government has committed to eliminate almost 3,000 full-time staff from the natural resource ministries by 2006 (West Coast Environmental Law, 2004 and Sierra Club of Canada, 2004).

The current provincial government is also pushing forward with the expansion of fish farms , attempts to lift the 30 year moratorium on offshore oil and gas development and introducing concepts of timber targets and working forest legislation that will make the creation of any new parks and future changes to more sustainable logging practices more challenging to achieve.