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Finance committee It's a huge area. There is a significant economic impact. Many small communities are involved. Many small communities cannot sustain their basic infrastructure, schools, health care, social services, let alone their culture and so on. What we are trying to do, as three organiza
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann
Finance committee There are two things involved here. One of them is to try to slow the spread. In British Columbia, that proved impossible. It's migrated into Alberta, and I can't speak for the circumstances in Alberta. I'm not in a position to speak on that part. Given that we were not success
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann
Finance committee I appreciate that it was asked in acres, though, because I'm still trying to make that age adjustment. It's 16.3 million hectares.
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann
Finance committee It's a huge piece of real estate.
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann
Finance committee Just to take a futuristic look to answer your question, it is one thing to deal with the wood as it's dying now, and throughout our entire region we are working as desperately as we can to do that. One of the significant things, when that wood is no longer available to us, is the
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann
Finance committee That is in fact a part of the mitigation strategy. The cost of doing that is significant. That 16 million-plus hectares is an awful lot of trees to replant, and the silviculture programs that we are encouraging, not only regionally and locally but provincially, are attempting to
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann
Finance committee Thank you very much for the question. We do appreciate it. In my earlier enthusiasm to stay within the time limits, I did neglect to share a couple parts of our presentation. In terms of the real successes, each of the three coalitions has substantially presented a series of str
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann
Finance committee I think I'd like to say the answer is “absolutely”, but not with the vigour we had hoped for. I have another particular example. Northern British Columbia is blessed with vast quantities of land at reasonable prices. With a variety of changes, we are encouraging and trying to d
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann
Finance committee Merci, Mr. Chairman, and bonjour to members of the committee. My name is Don Bassermann, and I am chair of the Omineca Beetle Action Coalition. We're here as a joint group today. With me is Rhona Martin, chair of the Southern Interior Beetle Action Coalition. We are speaking as
September 27th, 2010Committee meeting
Donald Bassermann