THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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March 1, 1992 44 pages

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Environmentalists angry, TWA happy after
GVRD board approves continued logging

ENVIRONMENTAL groups and some Greater Vancouver
Regional District (GVRD) board members are angry that
the union representing B.C. loggers had the last word be-
fore the GVRD voted Friday to allow logging to continue
in the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam watersheds.

The GVRD board voted on a
Feb. 20 recommendation from its
water committee to allow water-
shed logging to continue in-
definitely, subject to ongoing
ecological reviews.

The water committee recom-
mended continued watershed logg-

By Chery! Ziola
Contributing Writer

ing rather than instituting a foge-
ing moratorium after hearing a
submission from [WA-Canada
(international Woodworkers of

America), which represents thou-
sands of loggers in B.C. and
Canada.

The water committee had
amended its earlier recommenda-
tion that suggested the current
logging contract for local water-
sheds be continued only until the
contract expired in December
1992.

At that time, an extensive
ecological review would have been
done to determine the future of
watershed logging.

Vancouver Ald. Lib Davies,

one of the GVRD directors who
voted against indefinite watershed
logging, said the GVRD has done
an about-face after hearing from
the 1WA.

Other board members voting
against allowing watershed logging
to continue indefinitely included
Vancouver Ald. Harry Rankin,
West Vancouver Mayor Mark
Sager and Delta Mayor Beth
Johnson.

“T feel that the board has done
a real reversal,"’ Davies said.
“The original recommendaticn ...
made it quite clear that we would
continue with the logging contract
for this year and only under cer-
tain limited conditions ... and that
it would end presumably in 1992.

“The board could have review-
ed the situation and decided based
on the ecological inventory of the
watersheds what would then hap-
pen. I was satisfied with that.

“It really makes me mad that,
based on a delegation from the
IWA, they change their whole
position.’

Meanwhile, IWA-Canada
presidet Jack Munro, who at-
tended Friday’s meeting, said he
was satisfied with the board’s
decision.

“We're pleased. We support
continuing reviews. That’s good.
As far as our members are con-
cerned, it certainly adds some
stability to their future.’*

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