forestry

Seeing Beyond the Trees

ImageA 20-YEAR VETERAN of BC’s forestry sector, Linda Coady served as vice-president of environmental affairs for both MacMillan Bloedel and Weyerhaeuser before joining WWF and then VANOC, where she led efforts to green the Vancouver Olympic Games. Now a distinguished fellow at the University of British Columbia’s Lui Institute for Global Issues, Coady recently plumbed the future of forestry with Alternatives editor-in-chief Nicola Ross.

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Between Heaven and Earth

"I wanted to see the array of trunks that loomed over the creek, the dark side of Adventure, and I kicked off and traveled in that direction, getting closer to the goal in a series of gentle swings. I found myself in the middle of a Gothic tower of fusions, bridges, and spires, held up by flying buttresses. The zone was crisscrossed by branches, and the trunks ran out of sight in both directions, upward and downward. Overhead there was nothing but canopy. No sky, although when I looked down I could see a small patch of ground, starred with ferns.

Application Denied

Northgate Mineral Corporation’s proposed Kemess North Project will not be going ahead, at least not soon and not as proposed. The project – an open-pit, copper-gold expansion to an existing mine in a remote, mountainous area of northcentral British Columbia – was rejected by provincial and federal authorities.

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