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Province of British Columbia
2nd Session, 36th Parliament
INDEX
Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard)
March 24, 1997 to March 26, 1998
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Zirnhelt, Hon. David (Cariboo South)
Minister of Forests
- Agriculture
- industry, importance in rural communities 2246
- land-clearing by farmers, marketing of logs 5494
- Alberta, forest industry investment 3629
- Avenor Inc., Gold River mill situation 5259
- Baskerville, Gordon, report on private forest land 5226-7, 5229
- Beaver Creek, studies on creek 5493-4
- Birds, spotted owls recovery team 5457
- Bracewell, Gerry, letter on health care services 2245-6
- Bressette, Bruce, logging contractor case 5419-20
- B.C., northern B.C., log marketing concerns of woodlot owners and farmers 5495, 5497
- Budget debate 2245-7
- Cariboo area
- Cariboo South health care facilities 2245-6
- economy 2246-7
- land use planning 2247
- Cattle management, fencing issue 5500
- Chaps Enterprises, logging operation shutdown case 5453
- Chief forester
- annual allowable cut determinations 5385, 5387-90
- office staff 5307
- orders, public accessibility 6467
- Chilliwack area, forest road improvements 5075-6
- Crown land, unauthorized timber harvesting 6511
- Disabled persons, funding for spinal cord research 2245
- Education, protection of B.C. system 2245
- Electric power, cogeneration facilities and production subsidies 5301-2
- Empire Valley, Churn Creek properties, government interest in purchase 5490-1
- Employment, jobs strategy, regional strategy 2247
- Evans Forest Products Ltd., legislative provisions 6513-4
- Exports, trade barriers 5497, 5499
- Families, financial assistance for low-income families 2245
- Fisheries, role in economy 2247
- Forest Act
- administrative appeals and tribunals, evidence given under oath 6465
- amendment re log salvage 5077
- amendments 6129-30
- appeals, disclosure of information for review 6462-3
- review process 6464
- Forest and range resource program, report, assessment of resource impacts 5304
- Forest Appeals Commission, annual report tabled 2392
- Forest industry
- annual allowable cut, undercut 4958-9, 5026-7
- anti-logging protests, Liberal Party position 4524
- burning of dry timber 4961
- community forests, application requirements 5348
- company closings and stumpage rate adjustments 5255-6
- comparisons with industry in Sweden 6162
- costs, impact on investment plans 3061
- credit system to offset production costs 5192
- criminal actions re forest resources, reporting 5193
- current state of industry 2246-7
- cut-to-cruise reconciliations 5193
- deciduous tree planting on agricultural and range land 5388
- district managers, authority delegation to forest officers 6457
- electric power costs, impact on industry 4967
- employment and jobs
- creation of full-time jobs 5038
- creation of new jobs vs. more hours for existing jobs 4920
- definition of "displaced forest worker" 4921-2
- definition of term "forest job" 4920-2
- job creation commitments 5136
- job creation, comparisons with Oregon and Washington 4887-8, 5019-20
- job creation, NDP government action 4590
- job level fluctuation 4915-6
- job levels 2390, 3629-30
- job loss, tracking 4915-6
- job ratio, regional differences 5021
- job statistics 4588-9
- jobs created in 1991-97 period 3128
- jobs for non-union workers 5403
- NDP government goals 4524, 4589
- number of jobs 4911-3, 4961, 5287-8
- ratio of workers to timber harvest 4911, 4916
- enforcement provisions, need in legislation 6162
- expenditures on road and bridge maintenance 5462
- forest fire suppression, expertise 4880
- forest land, permitted uses 6466
- forest licences
- forest management
- brushing treatments on restocked land 6510
- exemptions from rehabilitation requirement 6510
- forest development plans, potential conflict between environmental officer and district forest manager 6509
- higher-level plans for resource management zones 6466-7
- higher-level plans, transition process 6490
- management plans, determination of adequacy 6458
- remediation orders, licensee's responsibility for contravention of agreement 6512
- requests for consent subject to review 6511
- reviews, legislative provisions 6512
- forest revenues
- management, role of Finance ministry 5195-6
- revenues for 1996-97 period 5194
- forest roads
- building of roads 5191
- deactivation 5460, 5462
- Forest Renewal B.C. funding 6491-2
- maintenance 6492
- public access to roads supervised by Forests ministry 5075
- public use, liability issue 5461-2
- regulations, inclusion in legislation 6162
- road access case 5451-2
- road-building permits 6461-2
- water bars, concerns 5077-8
- forest worker agency
- Fort St. John forest district, forest licence 4917-9
- Fraser timber supply area, chief forester's annual allowable cut determinations 5385-6
- global competitiveness 5066
- harvest sector workers, training in other sectors 5003-4
- impact of environmental groups on public relations, government response 4965-6
- international marketing initiatives 5299
- investment in industry 3128, 4949, 5136, 5183
- investments by young entrepreneurs 5264
- landscape unit plans, public input 5458
- landscape units 5305
- logging industry
- contract disputes, appeal process 5421-2
- costs 2391
- log markets 5186-7
- log transport, load description slips 5194
- log transport, proper marking, truckers' responsibility 6459-60
- logging plans for major companies 6492
- market logging, size of cutblocks 5264
- open log market 5144
- private logging, regulation 5249-50
- managed private forest land, classification and regulation of sector 5224-6, 5232-3, 5245-8
- market price for lumber during 1996-97 period 5189
- negligence cases, prosecution 5249
- non-managed private forest land, regulation 5232, 5246-8
- operational plans
- activity in areas subject to proposed amendments 6494
- legislative changes 6129
- participation of Indians 5034-5, 5335
- pest management 5349-53
- private forest land
- Chase Creek area case 5249
- conservation of biodiversity 5490
- ministry discussions with sector 5226-7, 5231
- Quesnel forest district, statistics 5501-2
- quota and stumpage, calculation 5190
- quota available for small producers 4960
- recreational use of forest land 5305
- remanufacturing industry
- "Repap proposal" for pulp logs 5254-5
- resource management zones within land use plans 6467
- role of Forests and Environment, Lands and Parks ministries in timber harvesting 5456
- sales turned back in 5294, 5296
- salvage log operations
- pilot projects 5076-7, 5144, 5501
- regulatory requirements 5077
- removal of trees "in danger" 6457
- salvage fee, relation to market value 5461
- salvage of no-value logs 5462
- scaling
- issues 6460-1
- scalers' pay levels and qualifications 5414-5
- scaling program 5355, 5414-5
- scaling system, auditor general's recommendations for changes 5145
- whistle-blowing legislative protection for scalers 5145
- security for contractors 5489
- silviculture
- backlog silviculture prescriptions 6491-3, 6510
- funding 3442, 5147-8, 5178
- not satisfactorily restocked areas 5538
- number of jobs 5147-8, 5151-2
- quality of workmanship 5076
- results-based silviculture prescription process and monitoring of plans 6490
- results-based silviculture prescription process, consequential legislative amendments 6510
- silviculture prescriptions, requirement for updated plan 6494
- silviculture prescriptions, soil disturbance 6509
- studies, access to studies 5148-50
- tree-planting by government and industry 4964
- tree-planting jobs for students 3442
- union membership of workers 5152
- work backlog 5148-50, 5304, 5537-8
- skills training for forest workers 2245
- socioeconomic impacts, requirement for district managers to consider 6465-6, 6494, 6508-9
- softwood lumber quota system 4961, 4966, 5073-4
- stumpage
- adjustments for coastal operations 5259
- determination, authorized officers 6461
- recognition point 5194
- revenue stability if stumpage changes 6346-7
- stumpage for decked wood 5191-2, 5501-2
- stumpage for small operations, review 5190
- system 5251, 5495
- system review 5185
- system, value assessment 5252-7
- sustainable forestry strategy 5405-6
- tenure administration, legislative provisions 6130
- tenure reform 5144
- theft of cedar logs, police and Forests ministry action 5072, 5076
- timber harvest, distribution around province, mitigation for job loss in lower mainland 5459
- timber licences still available 4960
- timber sale licences, requirement for silviculture prescription 6492
- timber supply review 5304, 5384-9
- timber-cutting licences, district managers' power to alter a contract's timeframe 5419
- training for Indians, funding 5335-6
- tree farm licences
- impact responsibility 5405
- licence holders, appeal of chief forester's annual allowable cut determination 6464
- unionization of B.C. forest workers 3280
- use of problem forest types 5353
- Vancouver forest region
- Kingcome area annual allowable cut 5385
- mill closings and penalties 5459
- woodlot program
- increase 5034
- increase and goals 5078-9
- operational plans 6513
- woodlot owners, appeal rights 6462
- Forest jobs commissioner, position and role 4954, 5079
- Forest Practices Board, 1996 annual report tabled 5488
- Forest Practices Code
- amendments 4735-6, 4880-1, 5029-30, 5143, 5457, 6129, 6161-2
- contraventions of code, legislative changes 6130
- costs attributed to code 5142
- environmental audit to measure code's results 5142
- guidebooks and information on code 4963
- investigation of complaints re code 5453-6
- regional guidelines and templates 4963, 5457
- report on cost impact 5024-6
- review 5025-6, 5035-6, 5141-2
- Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, "due diligence," definition 6511-2
- Forest Renewal B.C.
- 1997-98 business plan tabled and referred to Forests Committee 5017
- assistance to contractors holding Repap debt 5488
- budget 4917
- community input 5059-62
- delivery model, changes 6129-30
- fencing along roads to recreation areas 5500
- funding for projects
- board of directors role 5183
- distribution of funds 5154
- eligible activities 6512
- flow of funding to interior and northwestern B.C. 5082-3
- funds directed towards companies' bank loans 4910
- International Woodworkers of America role in negotiations 5079-83
- spending on land-based and watershed restoration projects 5037-8
- Terrace area funding, alleged comments by Deputy Minister of Forests 5064
- information and research, accessibility to public 5493
- investment in land base 5060
- investment plans 3062
- job creation, bridge financing 4951
- land-based delivery system
- monitoring of agency 5062-3, 5067
- projects
- first-priority hiring for displaced forest workers 3280, 5403
- jobs for displaced forest workers 3442
- jobs for displaced workers, productivity issue re older workers 5179
- local-hire policy 5497-9
- qualification of displaced workers, union membership question 5076, 5080-2
- role of agency 3442
- silviculture responsibility, transferral from Forests ministry 4881
- tracking of job creation 5492
- training programs for forest workers 3280
- worker transition fund 5408
- Forest Sector Strategy Advisory Committee
- participation of environmental organizations 5027
- participation of Tom Gunton and Doug McArthur 5023-5
- work of committee 4884, 4886-8, 4890, 5023, 5027
- work with cabinet policy and communications secretariat 5021, 5023
- Forests ministry
- estimates debate 4879-81, 4884-8, 4890-1, 4907-8, 4910-25, 4947-68, 4995-5004, 5018-38, 5057-64, 5066-85, 5110-21, 5135-56, 5177-96, 5224-33, 5245-64, 5287-307, 5333, 5335-7, 5349-56, 5381-90, 5405-22, 5424, 5443-63, 5488-97, 5499-502, 5530-41
- 1995-96 annual report tabled 5576
- aboriginal liaison officers in regional offices 5336
- auditor general's report 5193
- budget reduction 4881
- employee assistance programs 5295
- enforcement responsibility 5492, 5500
- "Forest Service Guiding Principles," availability of document 5501
- headquarters, reorganization 4881
- information, accessibility by Indians 5337
- input to Indian treaty negotiations 4966
- land exchange policy 5530
- mandate and operations 4879-81
- multicultural initiatives 5501
- office location in Dawson Creek vs. Chetwynd 5539
- recording of forest revenues 5194
- revenue branch, bad-debt provisions 5258
- risk management plans 5193
- silviculture expenditures 5538
- staff
- distribution 5303
- positions created by Forest Renewal B.C. 5535
- staffing levels and field inspections 5193
- transfer of responsibility and staff to Forest Renewal B.C. 5492, 5537
- workers' clothing subsidy 5533
- Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997
- Fort Nelson, chopstick plant closing, assistance for displaced workers 2250-1
- Gold River area, forest industry activity 2390-1
- Golden area, forest industry activity 2390-1
- Granting of leave to allow Jack Weisgerber's amendment on conflict-of-interest motion (Wilson, G.) 4750-1
- Hansen, Rick, achievements 2245
- Hart, Bob, dispute with Forests ministry, case 5424
- Indian land claim negotiations, private forest land 4968
- International Forest Products Ltd., study of spotted owl issue 5444
- Jobs and timber accord
- accord 3129
- announcement
- announcements and incentives to support accord 4947-8
- mayors' attendance 4951-2
- meeting in Kamloops, attendees 5177
- communications strategy 4995-9, 5004, 5030-3
- development of accord 5018, 5027-9, 5057
- fibre transfer program 5460
- financial incentive for companies 4922
- forest companies' role 5134
- Forests ministry role 5031-2
- four-month notice requirement for company layoffs 5111-3
- government contribution 4885-8
- impact of accord
- impact on existing silviculture contracts 5036-7
- impact on independent loggers 5139-40
- impact on participants in small business forest enterprise program 5139
- impact on silviculture contractors 5139
- investments
- investment in land base 5540
- regional investment plans 4948
- job creation
- jobs accord advocate
- monitoring of government action 5063-4, 5066-7
- pilot projects on community forest licences 5034-5
- role in layoff procedure 5069-71
- separation of accord and Forest Practices Code 5141-2
- statements by Hon. Glen Clark 4887, 4890, 4911
- strategic plan 4917
- support 5116-7
- unions' role 4923-4
- wood fibre transfer program 5077
- Kootenay School of the Arts, training program for value-added industry 5303
- Land and resource management plans
- Indians' participation in process 5304
- status of regional plans 4965
- Land use
- coordinated access management plans 5462-3
- land set aside
- planning, Indians' role in process 4967
- protected-areas strategy
- impact on job levels 5406-8, 5412-3
- impact on private land, land exchanges policy and encumbrances 5530-2
- inclusion of spotted owl protected areas in percentage of land set aside 5411
- log-around strategy 5457
- process 4967
- public input into land use plans 4965
- MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., investment plans 3061
- Miller, Hon. Dan, statement re creating jobs 4953
- Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 3), 1997, debate 6346-7
- Multiculturalism, use of multifaith calendar 5501
- NDP government
- consultations with public and others 6161
- financial management 2245
- Oil and gas industry, timber harvesting, master licence 6458
- Pacific Forest Products Ltd., sale of company 5137
- Paul Creek Slicing Ltd., wood supply for value-added plant 5077
- Performance as Forests minister (Wilson, J.) 2488
- Performance during Forests ministry estimates debate (Abbott) 5307 (Reitsma) 5307, 5331
- Port Alberni, support for jobs and timber accord 4924, 4947, 4950-2
- Port McNeill, jobs and timber accord funding for area 4953
- Private Forest Landowners Association
- negotiations with government 5227-31
- reaction to Baskerville report on private forest land 5229-30
- Quesnel, jobs and timber accord funding for area 4954
- Quoted on Forest Practices Code (Neufeld) 6132
- Rangeland, range use plans, issues 6493-4
- R&B Contracting Services Ltd., fine for timber harvesting on Crown land 5500
- Repap British Columbia Inc.
- assistance from Forest Renewal B.C. and banks 4951-3, 5488
- fibre suppliers 5257
- potential closing, recovery of lost revenues for government and creditors' costs 5488
- stumpage issues 5255, 5257-8
- viability of company 5137-8
- Sierra Legal Defense Fund, study of stream damage 5453-4
- Ski industry, stumpage rate for tree harvesting 5189
- Small business forest enterprise program
- bidding system 5260-1, 5263-4
- expenditures 5037
- fibre use, backlog 5293-4, 5296-8, 5381-4
- harvest levels 5289
- improvement 4881
- job creation, number and types of jobs 4954
- major licensees' participation 6456-7
- management of program, staffing 5297
- ministry's responsibilities re roadbuilding 5191
- number of registrants 5288-9
- options for changes in program 5297-8
- percentage of annual allowable cut available 4959
- program 5260-4
- sales returned in Cariboo forest region 5501
- takeback from major companies 5262-4, 5292
- temporary disqualifications of licence 6458-9
- undercut 5188
- wood allocation to program 5293
- wood supply, credit system 5290-2
- Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act, amendments 6513-4
- TimberWest Forest Ltd. Diver Lake property, acquisition by government for Strathcona Park addition 5530-3
- Vancouver Island land use plan, intensive-forestry areas 5458
- Waterborne organisms, cryptosporidium
- issue, Health ministry report 5535-7
- research 5493
- Watershed restoration projects, Forest Renewal B.C. funding 3061-2
- West Fraser Mills Ltd., stumpage issue 5251-2
- Whale's Tale Skills Centre, issues and concerns 5534-5
- Williams Lake, housing needs 2245
- Williams Lake Junior Secondary School, replacement project 2245
- Wood waste, beehive burner phase-out program 5301-2
- Woodworker Lien Act, adequacy 5489
Zoning
- See Land use; Urbanization
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