Six Million Beetle Bucks

Friday, January 18, 2008 01:00 PM

Prince George, B.C. - Ottawa has put up $6-million to pay for work done to control the spread of the mountain pine beetle.

Prince George-Peace River MP Jay Hill, made the announcement this hour at the Natural Resource Forum.

The money comes out of a fund announced last summer. The work is aimed at tryng to prevent the beetle from spreading into the northern boreal forest.

There are now 13 million hectaresof forest in B.C. that have been ravaged by the pine beetle .

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Posted on Friday, January 18, 2008 01:00 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: northman on January 18 2008 1:13 PM

Thats alot of fall and burn contracts!

Posted by: Moses on January 18 2008 1:15 PM

13 million hectares of timber ruined so far and $6 million to protect what's left.

That puts the federal government's value of the ruined resource at 50 cents per hectare.

Good show Jay.

Posted by: Andyfreeze on January 18 2008 1:28 PM

A lot like closing the barn door after the horse is out!
Another token for the north!

Posted by: northman on January 18 2008 1:46 PM

Andyfreeze wrote: A lot like closing the barn door after the horse is out!
Another token for the north!

-The barn being Tweedsmiur park and the Horse being the Pine Beatle.

Posted by: lmorg on January 18 2008 3:13 PM

Only about a tenth of what it would take. Just wait till it spreads east past Alberta.

Posted by: giterdun on January 18 2008 4:36 PM

WHAT BEATLES...WHAT TREES. NOT HERE, MAYBEE IN ALBERTA. SOMETHING LIKE A BELATED GET WELL CARD. THANKS ANYWAY JAY.

Posted by: Andyfreeze on January 18 2008 5:00 PM

I have flown over Tweedsmuir park and all you see in any direction are dead trees in every direction stretching to the horizon.
It looks like something out of a horror movie or some kind of nuclear holocaust.
Everyone should see it from the air to get an idea of the total devastation,and that's just one area!
They would also understand just how badly it has been downplayed by our fearless leaders!
It should be mandatory that politicians also see it from the air,then they might understand what we are talking about!

Posted by: diplomat on January 18 2008 10:30 PM

I think all the politicians know very well what the beetle kill looks like from the air!

Can't miss it because it is plainly visible when flying in any direction from here, especially when commuting back and forth from the 604.

They don't travel by car, because if they did we would have had much better and safer highways many years ago!

Posted by: pisspulper on January 19 2008 7:55 AM

Hmm, we received ignorance and chump change to deal with an economy crippling natural disaster. Suddenly, as it seems the epidemic starts to head east more chump change is dropped in the hat. Perhaps we need to hunt done some of the pesky varmints and make a free delivery to Ontario's forests and expedite some cash flow. Conclusion, so following the governments response to this matter, one would have to assume should a health epidemic arise nationwide, BC would go on the waiting list!!