BC Conservative Leader Talks Natural Resource Development
BC Conservative Leader Dan Brooks – photo 250News
Prince George, B.C. – BC Conservative leader Dan Brooks will be in Prince George tonight to speak about natural resources and development.
The Vanderhoof native says it’s been timed to follow-up on the Premier’s Natural Resource Forum this week.
“There’s a desperate problem in the way our natural resources are managed here in British Columbia. As northerners we understand this is the primary driver of our economy and when those resources are mismanaged it has a huge economic impact on us.”
He says the premier’s preoccupation with LNG development is part of the problem.
“Ultimately LNG benefits the northeast a great deal and it absolutely benefits Kitimat as well. But what about all points in between?”
Brooks will also speak to forestry and mining noting both sectors “need to evolve and we have to look at what they’re going to look like 20 and 30 years down the road. We have timber supply issues that have to be addressed.”
The Conservative leader will be speaking at Books & Company. The talk begins at 7:00 p.m.
Comments
So it’s Brooks and (hopefully)some company down at Books and Company?
Well, if I lived in PG I think I just might wander down and have a listen to what he has to say. At least he comes from the ‘hinterland’, and isn’t a ‘big city’ politician.
But I don’t. And I shouldn’t try to second-guess what that’ll be, but intuitively I’d venture it’ll be pretty predictable. More of the same we already hear from Clark, and Horgan, and that university educated Green guy, whatever his name is. Too bad, if that’s the case.
It would be nice to hear one of these people tell us why our cost of living should continually outpace our standard of living. For most of us, that is. Even with the drop in prices at the pump. And what they propose to do to reverse that. After all, isn’t the actual ‘prosperity’ they all, (well, maybe not the Green guy), hope to induce for us only possible when our standard of living rises relative to our cost of same? But I don’t think we’ll ever hear that. Then again, maybe Dan just might surprise us.
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