Finance committee  If you were to drive probably two and a half hours from here, heading up to Prince George, it would start there, around Merritt. You would see the devastation there. There are miles and miles and miles of deforested land. It is absolutely heartbreaking.

Finance committee  Many of the communities have value-added industries. For a while there was what was considered the blue-streaked pine and it was making furniture. It was kind of the fashion to have that. There are pellets being made for heat. They have tried to extract every ounce of valuable fi

Finance committee  We have some successes. We have a pilot project in Princeton. It's a pellet plant project that has really increased the economic opportunity in that community, which was suffering greatly.

Finance committee  In our region, what we've tried to do is partner with as many organizations as we possibly can. For the projects that we have approved at the SIBAC board table, the information or plan garnered quite often can be picked up and taken to another community so that it can be shared t

Finance committee  In response to the mountain pine beetle epidemic, three beetle action coalitions have been formed: Cariboo-Chilcotin, Omineca, and Southern Interior. The beetle action coalitions are made up of local government regional district representatives--typically mayors from the municipa