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In-Sights: BC Log export numbers raise questions
BC Stats, an agency of the provincial government, reports regularly on raw log exports. The most recent detail shows the quantity of logs shipped out of British Columbia has grown steadily but the unit value reported for them has declined steadily. By eliminating civil servants in the forest ministry, BC
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Once again, we review log export reports from BC Stats. However, instead of repeating 163,452 data points from January 1988 to May 2015, I aim to demonstrate trends that allow conclusions to be drawn from the information. The quantity of BC raw logs shipped overseas has increased by 500% since
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[View the story “BC Jobs Export Plan is working!” on Storify] The final item is intended to remind us that, for corporate welfare bums, creating good quality jobs is not high on the list of priorities.
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Many British Columbians of my generation were involved directly with the forest industry. As a kid, I lived beside a log dump and, to mother’s futile distress, played regularly on log booms. As Hans Peter Meyer said in his Tyee article, Working in the Woods, almost every adult male in
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Log exports still rising
The latest release from BC Stats demonstrate that log exports continue to rise. The volume (in cubic metres) shipped in January 2015, is 40% above the monthly average during Liberal years and is almost 600% higher than average monthly levels under NDP governments. The January 2015 quantity exported is 50%
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February 4, The Tyee published an article by Torrance Coste: Raw Log Exports: A Made-in-BC Problem that’s Only Getting Worse. Work here that relied on reports from BC Stats helped Torrance create his article and that’s fair because part of my writing was inspired by an Op-Ed he co-wrote, published
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Scotty on Denman left a comment at the previous article, Deplan, de plan and, for me, it resonates. Anyone who reads Recalling BC Pioneers will understand why. Captain Vancouver reported BC timber was virtually worthless because it was too big. CPR didn’t refuse the grant of east Vancouver Island, though,
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BC Stats published the monthly numbers for log exports to November 2014. The number reinforce arguments made in a recent Times Colonist Op Ed. An excerpt: B.C. government has gradually abandoned the province’s forestry heritage in pursuit of an unsustainable pipe dream: liquefied natural gas exports to Asia. The better
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BC Stats released an updated report ‘British Columbia Origin Log Exports’ and I extracted data to produce these graphs. The statistics show the volume of raw logs leaving the province continues at record levels. This demonstrates the average monthly volume of exports over time. I’ve written much about the subject
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