All A Buzz About Beetles

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 03:49 AM

City Hall wasn’t the only site where the Mountain Pine Beetle was the topic of discussion.

At the Civic Centre, representatives from at least 80 First Nations in the province gathered for an emergency session on the issue. The two day session is designed to examine the economic, environmental and social impacts of the pine beetle’s devastation.

Today, Provincial Minister of Forests and Lands, Rich Coleman, along with Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, Tom Christensen will attend this, the second day of the emergency forum.

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Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 03:49 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: gypsy on September 20 2005 8:19 AM

Emergency session you say???
The state of emergency has long ago been reached and passed.
It is too late!!!
These meetings are a farce!!!!
The beetles have long ago won the war.
And I am not trying to scare anyone--but
I am scared!!!!

Posted by: localman on September 20 2005 9:30 AM

What's that sound???

I hear the sound of a fog horn as the ship sails off. We've missed the boat on any kind of pine beetle prevention for this region. The time for emergency meetings was 5 years ago or more.

I believe all we can do now is come up with half a vision for 10 years down the road when all the pine trees are dead.

What do we do? Farm the land? Diversify the economy...to what?

I think these are the most important questions to be asking...and they need to be addressed now.

A few decades down the road the trees will be back, but for now...forget it... they're gone.