B.C. Tap Water Alliance
www.bctwa.org
(February 27, 2013)


BACKGROUNDERS FOR
TREE FARM LICENSE ROLLOVERS

• Press Release, February 27, 2013: Land Grab Rejected 24 Years Ago - BC Liberals Resurrect Tree Farm License Rollovers in Bill 8
  

• Independent MLA Bob Simpson's website on Bill 8 backgrounder (lots of information) http://www.bobsimpsonmla.ca/issue-update-proposed-rollover-legislation/

• February to March 1989, TFL Rollover Public Information meetings (580 kb)

Government news release - January 18, 1989
Meeting dates and locations advertisement
Transcript index of public meetings

• The list of 122 TFL Rollover Applications from 54 companies/corporations (number of TFL applications highlighted in yellow) (134 kb)

• March 8, 1989 - Western Canada Wilderness Committee demands Forests Minister Parker to release secret TFL maps (919 kb)

• May/June 1989 edition of Forest Planning Canada: Shooting the Bearer of the Message: Forests Minister Dave Parker Wonders if the Public is Finally Getting the Message (2187 kb)
  

• December 3, 1988 - Outdoor Recreation Council Memo (108 kb)

• January 13, 1988 - NDP News Release, and presentation address by Bob Williams  (367 kb)

• September 15, 1987 - Ministry of Forests and Lands News Release, and news conference notes for Forests and Lands Minister Dave Parker (364 kb)

• September 1987 - Ministry of Forests - New Directions for Forest Policy in British Columbia (459 kb)

• February 2, 1984 - NDP News Release - Confidential Council of Forest Industries submission to Premier Bill Bennett in July 1983 (538 kb)

• August 31, 1984 - Ministry of Forests list of Tree Farm Applicants (187 kb)

• February 12, 1987 - Tree Farm License Summary (74 kb)

• Article by Richard Overstall - Corporations Make Takeover Bid for B.C. Forests (TFL-11)

• June 16, 1987 - Speech by William L. Wagner, Privateering in the Public Forest? (457 kb)

• Forest Planning Canada - Ownership and Inter-Corporate Linkages of Selected Forest Companies Operating in British Columbia (76 kb)

• Forest Planning Canada - State of Forest Licenses in British Columbia; Holders of Tree Farm Licenses; and Comparison of BC Stumpage on Crown Land with United States Western National Forests, 1976-1985 (243 kb)

• February 3, 1989 - Sierra Club News Release on TFL Rollovers (131 kb)

• March 1989 - Groups Petition, calling for an independent inquiry on forestry, and, St. Andrew's Cathedral Parish Social Justice Committee calling for an inquiry in the management of BC's forest resources and TFL Rollovers be halted (190 kb)

• March 21, 1989 - Socred MLA Jack Kempf (former Forests Minister) calls for a Royal Commission Inquiry on forestry in BC (137 kb)

• Garry Worth, Pulp, Paper & Woodworkers of Canada, submission, Public Information Sessions (965 kb)

• March 6, 1989 - Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance, submission, Public Information Sessions (316 kb)

• March 6, 1989 - Anne Edwards, NDP MLA, Kootenay, submission, Public Information Sessions (195 kb)

• March 6, 1989 - Fred Marshall, submission, Public Information Sessions (238 kb)

• March 6, 1989 - Valhalla Wilderness Society, submission, Public Information Sessions (547 kb)

• March 6, 1989 - Herb Hammond, submission, Public Information Sessions (745 kb)

• March 8, 1989 - Forestry professor Peter J. Dooling, submission, Tree Farm License Expansion: Are We Putting the Fox in Charge of the Hen House?, Public Information Sessions (755 kb)

• March 8, 1989 - Citizens for Public Justice, submission, Public Information Sessions (280 kb)

• March 8, 1989 - Project North, B.C., Vancouver Branch, submission, Public Information Sessions (306 kb)

• Newspaper articles - January 18 to July 20, 1989 (7.88 megabytes)