Editor:
Where is our MLA Nicholas Simons in making sure his government respects and acts in accord with the overwhelming majority of Sunshine Coasters opposed to the short-sighted, ill-informed decision to proceed with the Joe Smith Creek cutblock timber sales auction?
In all my years as a campaigner for the protection of B.C.’s biodiversity and old-growth forest ecosystems, starting in 1980 with the Wilderness Committee, I have never seen so much local opposition to logging be disregarded by the provincial government. The provincial NDP must not ignore the call to halt this timber sale by the local SCRD government in January, the petition initiated by Robert Creekers that has gathered over 34,000 signatures, and by Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) whose reasoned opposition is based on simply applying BC Forest Service’s own policies, which have been established to save biodiversity and nurture healthy forests in BC forever.
Please, Nicholas, leave a legacy you will proudly be remembered for by getting your NDP Government to do the right thing for our children and Mother Earth, and protect this area and all the old-growth recruitment areas identified on Mt. Elphinstone.
Paul George, OBC
Gibsons
