Morris to Examine Wildlife Habitat
Morris, who has long been a hunter and a trapper, says his interest was first sparked as he watched the forests turn red, then gray in the wake of the Mountain Pine Beetle “I don’t think a lot of people understand the magnitude of the natural disaster associated with the Mountain Pine Beetle and the impact it has had on wildlife habitat.” He has been expressing his concerns to the Ministry of the Environment since he was elected to office.
Morris says he will be working with all the various stake holders to try and get them to help him develop solutions. Morris says while he has provided forestry as an example, it is not the only sector under the microscope, “I’m not going to single out any particular industry, and or any particular segment of the province.”
Morris says he will be working with all the stakeholders to see how they are complying with the rules “There are various statutes that will be examined to see if they are being complied with, for example the Migratory Bird Convention Act . If they are not being complied with, why, and the consequences of non-compliance , not only in forestry but in mining, oil and gas and just about every sector we have in the province.”
The review may be broad in scope, but is relatively short on time “I’ve got six months to do this, and I’m not making recommendations, but what I’m doing is providing advice to the Minister on what needs to happen to change it.”
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Waste of time. If there was concerns they should have been addressed 21 yrs ago before the export of the pine beetle wood by rail.
Beetles are not uncommon and have run in cycles long before man. Forests have died and regrown for thousands of years only difference this time is man accelerated the process by means of stupidity and greed,(lower stumpage rates) caused by degrading wood in a large scale,and the ability to transport material over long distances.
Yes there’s been an impact. Millions of dollars in research, yeah right, just like the millions that was spent on research determining if red standing timber burnt faster than dry gray standing timber (stupid) or am I wrong?
Something definitely should have been looked at 25 years ago when it came to wildlife conservation and management, fencing along railways, moose wintering areas closed for LED hunts.
All I see is another means of a cash grab for people who enjoy the outdoors!
Instead of this, Morris should be asking why millions of cubic metres of dead pine are unavailable to harvest because they’re in Old Growth Management Areas. They weren’t old growth to begin with and now these trees sit dead, blowing over, and creating fire risks. What are we managing, exactly?
By the way, Morris supports Steve Thomson’s sweetheart deal to the guide outfitters (at the expense of resident hunters). Just thought I’d get that out there :)
Forestry is a renewable, green as it gets resource utilization process. The entire inventory of pine was killed in the interior. The hectares had to and have to continue to be converted to productive forest land base. I agree, waste of time.
Shouldn’t someone be looking at how Mike spent more than twice the average expenses per MLA in the last sitting of the house? More than $10k for 23 days, far more than Shirley’s $6k and she has a cabinet post, requiring more time in Victoria.
“LED hunts” .. LEH hunts as well.
Fate: “Shouldn’t someone be looking at how Mike spent more than twice the average expenses per MLA in the last sitting of the house?”
Unless you have a documented example of an unauthorized or unallowable expense, you are just wasting everyone’s time with this.
The government muzzled all the scientists and now we are going to listen to a politician giving us the facts. good luck with that one
Cheers
@johnnyBelt so “fiscal responsibility” applies to everyone but Mike?
by Retired 02
“The government muzzled all the scientists and now we are going to listen to a politician giving us the facts. good luck with that one ”
Spot on, Retired 02.
I trust politicians;
approximately as far as I can throw one, and I ain’t all that strong.
metalman.
Fate: “@johnnyBelt so “fiscal responsibility” applies to everyone but Mike?”
I’m still waiting for your example. Your commentary makes me think you’ve never been on an expense account and don’t know how it works. It is possible to spend more and all those expenses can be perfectly valid depending on the situation.
As I said, if you have more specific information, share it.
for you @johnnybelt
“However, rental data produced by the Canada Housing and Mortgage Corporation (CHMC) shows that Mr. Morris found accommodation that was far, far more expensive than the market rates then available in Victoria.”
A CHMC report entitled ‘Rental Market Statistics’ shows that the average cost of renting a one-bedroom apartment in Victoria in April 2013 was just $826 per month.
That same report put the average cost of a two-bedroom apartment in the provincial capital at $1,076 per month, and for a three-bedroom apartment, $1,334.
“Mr. Morris has put B.C. taxpayers on the hook for an average rental rate of $1,700 per month,”
btw, the government rate at the Empress runs between $99 a night and $129 a night depending on the season. If he stayed there for the 23 days the house sat, he’d have been under 3k for the duration rather than the $10.2k he billed us for renting an apartment for 6 months, which basically sat vacant for 5 of those 6.
Say Fate looks like you just pick and choose to investigate. Kind of a narrow field you picked there. What’s the details on his his rental?
Posted on Friday, January 9, 2015 @ 10:17 AM by Retired 02
The government muzzled all the scientists and now we are going to listen to a politician giving us the facts. good luck with that one
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The good people of Prince George recently voted to stop having fluoride placed in their drinking water despite all the scientific evidence to support it’s benefits. It’s not like the majority listen to scientists anyhow.
@seamut every investigation in the world is pick and choose, no one can investigate everything all the time. Seriously. I don’t know any more detail than what I provided, feel free to pick up the ball and run with it. Mike doesn’t respond to my questions, no need to answer constituent questions apparently.
@Fate: Interesting you got this information off of the BC Conservatives web page. There’s a lot of slanted opinion and conjecture you left out of the article you quoted from, but this is something that should be watched.
glad people are watching how MLA’s are spending our money . kinda sounds like the rich getting richer and looking out for the rich hunters .
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