Posted: May 06, 2021 6:06 AM PT | Last Updated: May 6
North Cowichan resident Larry Pynn has discovered a growing number of sites where massive red cedar and Douglas fir trees have been cut down inside a municipal forest reserve. (Briar Stewart/CBC)
The municipality of North Cowichan, B.C., is stepping up patrols of the region s forest reserve, after an increase in timber theft in the area, which lies 70 kilometres north of Victoria on Vancouver Island.
Since January, approximately 100 trees, including Douglas fir and Western red cedars have been poached and local residents and officials believe the spike is likely tied to the surge in lumber prices.
One of B.C.’s smallest birds is responsible for a four-month stop-work order on one of the federal government’s largest projects, the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
Anna’s hummingbirds are protected by Canada’s Migratory Bird Act, which says any work that could negatively affect the population has to be halted until nesting season is over. The order, issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada, was put forward after conservation officers saw the company felling a tree with an active hummingbird nest in it earlier this month.
The pipeline, originally built in the 1950s, was taken over by Texas’ Kinder Morgan in 2015, which then made plans to triple the exports of the existing operation, upping production to up to 890,000 barrels each day flowing from Alberta to the coast of B.C. The federal government purchased the pipeline in 2018 for $4.5 billion. The Trans Mountain expansion (TMX) is projected to cost $12.6 billion.
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