Making the Case for a Carbon Focus and Green Jobs in BC’s

downturn in the US housing market, efforts Predictably, given the downturn in the US housing market, efforts have been made by BC’s have been made by BC’s forest companies and the provincial government to increase the sale of BC forest products forest companies and the in other markets, most notably China. [...] The Forest Products Association of Canada, as part of its efforts to promote further use of the wood waste stream to make a range of bio-products, maintains that the best way to achieve that ob- jective is to build on the evident successes to date. [...] subsequently died and that many sites were Kozak’s critique of the dangers of replication in forest products is also one that he ap- underperforming in terms plies to reforestation efforts, which, in the interior of the province where the bulk of the of healthy tree re-growth. [...] 16 Making the Case for a Carbon Focus and Green Jobs in BC’s Forest Industry In the forest product stream, the priorities should be to: • Encourage maximum conversion of logs to solid wood products; • Move the so-called “waste” (chips and sawdust) from diverse solid-wood manufacturing processes to a pulp and paper industry that anchors the emer- ging bio-energy industry; and • Build the emerging b. [...] (In an earlier report, the author of this paper recommended the appointment of a formal commission of inquiry to review the impact of cuts to the Forest Service on provision of key public services and to make recommendations on a restructured and revitalized agency).37 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS BC’s forest industry and the provincial government, as custodian of public forestlands, have an en.