The last recommendation
is also pertinent.
"(j) The extreme northeast of
Nopiming Park shall be considered for wilderness status...contiguous
with the larger area of Caribou Wilderness Park in Ontario,
and mutually reinforce the protection which wilderness
status affords.”
The very first time the forestry activity in Manitoba
was reviewed by an environmental commission, it was recognized
by this government agency that we shouldn’t be logging
in provincial parks. More than 15 years after these recommendations
were made, no provincial government has followed through
and protected our provincial parks.
In Manitoba, the Environment Act legislation states that
if recommendations from the Clean Environment Commission
are not followed, the government must give written explanations
as to why the recommendations were disregarded. We have
located the written explanation, and found it to be unusual.
It is a rare if not unique case where
all of the six recommendations were dismissed by the government
in a few terse sentences.
In 1999, Tembec bought the forestry operation and took
over the license for FML1. These environmental recommendations
and the government dismissal of them was written into
the license which Tembec received.
We must demand, as Manitobans and owners off the public
forest Tembec is destroying, that the current government
follow the recommendations put forth 15 years ago. It
was understood 15 years ago, just as it is now, that the
well-being of our province and the best interests of Manitobans
will be served when clearcut logging in our provincial
parks is ended.
Click
here to view a copy of the government explanation
as to why the Clean Environment Commission recommendations
were ignored.
The CEC report can be found online at:
http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/index.cfm?pageID=9&function=Step2&CatID=3
It is posted in two parts. Part 2 has the recommendations.
We have copied the reports to our server so they can be
downloaded from here.
“Report on Abitibi-Price Inc. FML #01 Forest Resource
Management Plan 1991 - 1998 (1992) Part
1”
To download Part 1 of the report, right-click the link
below, then:
- in Mozilla Firefox choose “Save Link As…”
- in Internet Explorer choose “Save to Disk”
Right-click
here for Part 1 of the
CEC Report on logging in FML 1.
“Report on Abitibi-Price Inc. FML #01 Forest Resource
Management Plan 1991 - 1998 (1992) Part
2” which has the recommendations.
To download Part 1 of the report, right-click the link
below, then:
- in Mozilla Firefox choose “Save Link As…”
- in Internet Explorer choose “Save to Disk”
Right-click
here for Part 2 of the
CEC Report on logging in FML 1. |
