Harper Pledges $1 Billion in Beetle Bucks

Monday, September 12, 2005 06:40 PM

Prince George M-P D ick Harris listens in as Conservative Party Chief Stephen Harper is interviewed moments before attending a Prince George Conservative Party dinner

Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition, Stephen Harper, has pledged his party would spend $1 billion dollars over the next ten years to deal with the mountain pine beetle epidemic.

Harper made the announcement shortly after taking a one hour helicopter tour of the Prince George region. M.P. D ick Harris says he had shown the party leader plenty of pictures of the beetle's devastation, but "nothing really hits home until you are up in the air, and for as far as the eye can see, there are red trees".

The full impact of the beetle onPrince George was witnessed first hand by Harper when the helicopter tour wrapped up with a hover over the Prince George Golf and Curling Club, the site of a Conservative party dinner. There below the chopper was a lucious green fairway , but tree after tree after tree on the site is red.

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Posted on Monday, September 12, 2005 06:40 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: spanky on September 13 2005 7:26 PM

i guess we won't have to worry about getting that cash. why you say?
BECAUSE CREEPY STEEVIE WILL NEVER GET ELECTED HE IS TOO SCARY!

later........

Posted by: gypsy on September 13 2005 9:32 PM

Well, finally I have to agree with Spanky, but only with his statement Harper will not get elected. I do not agree with the rest of the statement.
It is always beneficial that the leader of a party take the time and make the effort to view exactly what B C is up against with this devastation of the pine trees. It really is sad to see how the wrath of Mother Nature can be so destructive. Thousands of trees have been cut in this city, totally changing the appearance of many areas.
What will it look like in another 8 years???
Even a billion dollars cannot bring back what was!!!
Nor can it stop a major fire in a dead wood forested area, as they surely cannot get all the affected trees removed from our forests.
How can they even prepare for the ultimate damage if such a catastrophe should occur????
They best be thinking of it. Perhaps Mother Nature is not going to stop with the beetle!!
We may be in dire need of aid in our own province one day.