Andrew Nikiforuk makes key points along with Bill Donahue and Nigel Banks. There is much light needing to be shed on this debacle, not only with Smith’s government but on Kenney’s as well.
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You are invited to the Strawberry Equestrian camp about 44 km east of Longview on Hwy 543 to learn what the Defenders of the Eastern Slopes are doing on the ground, trying to stop clearcut logging in the Highwood and Loomis Creek area. We have had a camp there for the past two weeks. Come and see the bridge which West Fraser Timber wants to erect across the Highwood River, destroying bull trout fish habitat. Come see our answer to a locked gate....We will be meeting on Saturday morning at 11 am at the camp, bring some lunch and water and if you'd like to make a donation, some cash. Hope you can make it....this is what furious taxpayers do.
Everyone seems to forget that it was the NDP that opened the door to these companies in 2016 when they verified in writing that "Category 2 land did not preclude open pit mining". That was the catalyst for the Australian companies to come into the Eastern Slopes. The AER, under the NDP approved multiple Coal Exploration Programs before they lost the election in 2019.
The NDP also supported the payment to fossil fuel companies for their own policy changes when they paid $1.4B to the thermal power generators for NO tangible benefit except feeling smug.
Of course you wouldn't expect the Tyee to be balanced in anyway.