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B.C. has a blueprint to save its oldest forests. Will it use it?
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:22:43
Publish Date: 2021-06-17 08:00:58
Description:

The months-long blockade at Fairy Creek is something of a tipping point for the province's NDP government's attempt to balance its environmentalism and its logging interests. Before his party was re-elected, Premier John Horgan pledged to follow a report with recommendations to protect B.C.'s old-growth forests, of which only three percent remain.

Almost a year later, none of the recommendations have been acted upon and the blockade that has led to hundreds of arrests shows no signs of stopping. Will the province agree to a deferral? Will that buy it time to figure out a solution? Logging vs. the environment is a decades-old fight in the province, but the government has run out of time to find a solution that pleases everyone.

GUEST: Sarah Cox, B.C. Investigative Reporter, The Narwhal
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