Judge strikes down attempt to halt timber sales – Alaska Highway News
July 30, 2015
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has turned down the Blueberry River First Nation’s attempts to stop the B.C. government from selling the rights to cut down timber in a certain area of their traditional territory.
The move may benefit the employees of the Canfor mill in Fort St. John. Court documents suggest that the company relied on these sale lots being put up for auction “to sustain its sawmill operators and its employees in Fort St. John.”
The issue goes back to 2010, when the Ministry of Forest and Range (now the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources) drew up forest plans that allowed about 17 square kilometres of trees to be cut down over 15 Timber Sale Licences near Inga Lake, Pink Mountain, and other areas.
