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People think more environmental protections needed for Sunshine Coast forestry activities: Poll

The Coast Reporter polled 442 Coast Reporter readers and asked the question: " Do you think local forestry activities need to have more environmental protections in place?" The poll ran from Feb. 24 to March 3.
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The Coast Reporter polled 442 Coast Reporter readers and asked the question: "Do you think local forestry activities need to have more environmental protections in place?"

The poll ran from Feb. 24 to March 3. Of the 442 votes, we can determine that 116 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes 87.07 % local, 76.02 % total    
No 12.93 % local, 23.98 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Coast Reporter readers who are located in Sechelt. The margin of error – which measures sample variability - is +/- 4.56%, 19 times out of 20.

Coast Reporter uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.