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The B.C. Liberal government’s plan to award new logging rights, so the Burns Lake sawmill can be rebuilt has a chance of working, but it is taking too long, NDP forest critic Norm Macdonald says. Recently, Jobs Minister Pat Bell and local MLA John Rustad announced the government will award a new community forest tenure to the Burns
Lake Native Development Corp., which was a partner in the Babine Forest Products mill along with Oregon-based Hampton Affiliates. That would provide 150,000 cubic metres per year, and a new area-based First Nations woodlands licence would add another 65,000 cubic metres a year. Bell said a partnership of area First Nations will be formed to share another tenure that would make another 380,000 cubic metres
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of wood available to the rebuilt mill. The new forest tenure will mainly come from lower-value timber stands that were not included in the forest inventory before, and will include salvage trees for bioenergy production, Bell said. Hampton Affiliates CEO Steve Zika said if all that timber is delivered, it will allow the company to build a smaller mill to replace the one destroyed by fire in
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