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Website of Stop Burning Trees: find more information for action in #GB against #Drax, UK's single largest #carbon emitter, emitting more carbon dioxide than 29 countries, and world's biggest tree burner (woody biomass burning power station). https://stopburningtrees.org/issue
#activism #climateActivism #CO2 #climateCrisis #forest #trees #wood #biodiversity #clearcuts #StopBurningTrees #environment
#Subsidizing #Clearcuts.
Communities and forest workers need a new social contract, not a corporate bailout.
https://watershedsentinel.ca/article/subsidizing-clearcuts/
In June, USW Local 1-1937 went on strike in Tree Farm License 64 because the company insists on hiring non-union contractors to do union work. The new TFL is held by Western Forest Products and La-Kwa sa muqw, a partnership of four Vancouver Island First Nations: Tlowitsis, We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum, and K’omoks.
Forest industry losses will continue because the Canadian lumber industry is barely profitable. Almost all the old growth forests are gone. The easy-to-reach, low-elevation, high-value trees were taken years ago. What’s left is the “guts and feathers,” as Wilderness Committee campaign director Joe Foy says.
It costs politicians nothing to claim that this bailout will benefit workers. But the only thing they can guarantee is a new round of austerity: cutting wages and benefits and replacing union workers with non-union contractors – the same gambit that led to the Steelworkers’ strike.
#BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCForestryReform #BCForestryWorkers #WorkerUnions #Greenwashing #Scabs #Logging
Swedish study concludes: it’s best for the climate to not cut down forests.
Who would have thought, Sherlock?
#forestry #clearCuts #kalhyggesskogsbruk #kalhygge #tretaighackspett
Day 8 - Aug 21
" #Kananaskis #Clearcuts: Outdated Laws, New Threats"
Guest #CPAWS' Joshua Killeen
Co-host Jenny Yeremiy
https://www.podcastics.com/episode/309464/link/
#12DaysOfPodcasts #Climate #abpoli #ClimatePodcasts #Forests #SaveOurMountains #abpoli #yyc
How obsolete regulations and practices are endangering one of Alberta’s most unique and beloved wildlands
"The increasing severity of #wildfires and #drought highlights that reforming #ForestStewardship – taking better care of the forests, including safeguarding #OldGrowthForests – is one of our best hopes to protect communities across B.C.
Harmful #forestry practices like #clearcutting and #unsustainable #IndustrialLogging make extreme heat and wildfires worse. #Clearcuts are #tinderboxes, more prone to creating embers because dead trees and branches dry out in the hot sun and become more #flammable. Tree plantations and improperly tended young forests also increase wildfire risk: Younger trees have thinner bark and low-hanging branches that can act as ladder fuels, and the trees are often planted too close together, making it easy for fire to spread.
Fortunately, intact and properly managed #forests are more resilient to the worsening wildfires and heatwaves. For example, #OldGrowth #rainforests have dense canopies which provide cooling shade that resists fire. They are cooler and wetter than young forests, acting as giant sponges. Old-growth trees in the drier interior have thick bark, high branches and are widely spaced which all reduce #WildfireRisk.
#SierraClubBC #BCpoli #StopEcocide #BritishColumbia #Environmental #SaveOldGrowth #ClimateCrisis #BCNDP #BanCorporateLobbyists #Wildfires #floods #ClimateEmergency #BCwildfires #BCfloods #NaturalDisasters #ClimateMitigation #StopDeforestation #JustStopOil #DoTheRightThing #OneEarth #BCForestryReform
In late June, #BritishColumbia & #GovernmentOfCanada announced that they’ve helped non-profit foundations & trusts buy 8 parcels of land from private owners for #OldGrowth #Conservation, largely on and around #VancouverIsland.
However, all but one of the #forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth #trees, defined by the #BCgovernment as 250-year-old #CoastalForests & 140-year-old forests in parts of the #BCInterior. Instead, 7 of 8 purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been #logged.
Photos taken by members of #environmental organization #AncientForestAlliance #AFA earlier this month show massive old-growth trees being logged by #BCTimberSales, #BCNDP’s own #logging agency, in the Nahmint Valley on Vancouver Island. Some of these trees are more than 500 yrs old, according to the organization.
#BCpoli #deforestation #clearcuts #VanIsle #EcoJustice #Ecocide #ecological #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #SaveOldGrowth #AncientForests #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #TreesAreEarthsLungs
All but one of the forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth trees. Instead, seven of the eight purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been logged.
#StopDeforestation ✊️🌲🌳🙏
Two past #photographs together ->
#BigLonelyDoug layered over #deforestation #clearcuts 😢 in #CowichanValley
All the #OldGrowthTrees, in what used to be fully forested area, were razed down. This kind of reckless profits before planet #ClearcutLogging absolutely devastates #ecosystems & it annihilates #WildlifeHabitats.
Please join the ongoing fight to #SaveOldGrowth & for #BCForestryReform. We seriously need to transition & work on #NatureFirst #WildFirst solutions for a more ethical, responsible & sustainable future.
https://ancientforestalliance.org/
Read about Big Lonely Doug:
https://thewalrus.ca/big-lonely-doug/
#CutOutCorruptionNotForests #SaveOldGrowth #TreesAreEarthsLungs #VancouverIsland #ProtectForests #ProtectNature #VancouverIsland #StopEcocide #SaveTheForests #PauseTheSaws #EndClearcutting #StopKillingOldGrowth #TreesOverGreed #BCNDP #BCpoli #Environmental #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #EcoJustice #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #AbolishCorporateLobbyists #CrimesAgainstHumanity #BCNDPCriminals #Ecocide #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCNDPNatureKillers #SaveAncientTrees #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Treehugger #TreeProtectors #ForestDefenders #ActivismArt #WorldInMyEyes #ActivistPhotography #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #photography
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