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Oct 21, 2026
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Looking at the Election Promises on Saving Forestry Jobs - The Tyee
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Listen to this article 6 min British Columbia’s forestry industry is struggling.
government was negotiating a proposal to transfer 400 plots of Crown land back to First Nations.
The Conservatives’ plan, announced Monday, includes proposals to increase the province’s annual economically viable harvest (the amount of wood allowed to be harvested each year) to 45 million cubic metres from 29 million cubic metres.
Manufacturing Jobs Fund — a $200-million program to help manufacturing companies create jobs — as well as cut taxes for value-added wood manufacturers and reduce permitting costs for B.C.
The BC Green Party’s forestry platform includes implementing recommendations made in the Old Growth Strategic Review, rejecting the proposed 45-million-cubic-metre annual harvest level, ending clearcutting and dedicating up to 50 per cent of B.C.’s fibre toward value-added production.
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Logging and mill companies have grappled with climate change, new U.S. tariffs, invasive pests and forest management practices.
The result has been a decades-long wave of closing mills and thousands of lost jobs across British Columbia.…
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