The Mackenzie Forest district has enough timber to feed Northern mills for the next 20 years, including Burns Lake and Lakeland.
The infrastructure is being built to haul hundreds of loads of logs a day out of the Mackenzie Forest District, either by rail or truck.
The Liberals, three months before an election, are trying to pass legislation that would turn our forests into tree farms, so they can be sold off to the highest bidder. As long as they pay stumpage they can do as they want.
The Mackenzie forest district is being subdivided and sold off.
There is no guarantee that it will be sold off to BC mills to keep us employed.
James Sheppard, ex CEO of Canfor, is paying for the attack ads on Adrian Dix.
Neither the forest minister nor the forest critic would guarantee that logs that leave Mackenzie will not end up on ships to China.
Politicians on both sides are determining our futures without talking to us or even caring what happens to us.
Log shortages in Northern B.C. is a myth. Mackenzie has the trees and the railway can now deliver to the mills in B.C. that need them. So if your mill closes because of you can't get logs, it means they are exporting raw logs from Mackenzie.
In three months we have an election. Both the Liberals and the NDP have said they would allow timber from Mackenzie to be exported.
I sure hope people reading this care enough about their future to get involved and ask questions.
Rick Berry
Mackenzie
