Another Possible Conflict of Interest in WFP land transfer?

Too Close to Call
by Jason Youmans, Monday Magazine
While provincial approving officer Bob Wylie ponders whether or not to grant Western Forest Products permission to steam ahead with subdivision construction on lands around Jordan River, Otter Point and Shirley, it seems his predecessor at the B.C. Ministry of Transportation office in Nanaimo also has an interest [...]

Removal of land from tree farm licences rapped by AG

Vancouver Sun
The B.C. government approved the removal of private lands from tree farm licenses on Vancouver Island “without sufficient regard for the public interest,” Auditor General John Doyle said Wednesday.
“I am not criticizing the policy of allowing licensees to remove their private lands from TFLs,” he said in a written release.
“But I expect that such [...]

B.C. Auditor General says decision on tree farm licence premature

-Canadian Press
VICTORIA — B.C.’s auditor general says the provincial government’s decision to remove private land from several tree farm licences on Vancouver Island was done without sufficient regard for the public interest.
Auditor General John Doyle said Wednesday his review of the decision to remove the land from the three tree-farm licences was not well informed [...]

Auditor general’s report slams sale of forestry lands

-CBC
B.C.’s Auditor General John Doyle has condemned former forests minister Rich Coleman for allowing a forestry company to remove land from three tree farm licences for residential development, citing the possibilities of conflict of interest and insider trading by government staff.
The report, released Wednesday in Victoria, said Coleman’s decision to remove private forest lands from [...]

Auditor General Rules TFL Deletions Not In Public Interest

A report from the BC auditor general’s office has found that the Campbell government’s decision to remove 28,000 hectares of private land from Tree Farm Licence was made without sufficient regard for public interest.
The report stated that:
-the decision was not adequately informed — it was based „upon incomplete information that focused primarily on forest and [...]

Auditor-general cuts his teeth on the contentious topic of private forest land

Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun
VICTORIA – When John Doyle came from Australia to take on the job of B.C. auditor-general last fall, he lost no time showing a willingness to tackle controversial topics.
He had been here for just three weeks when he launched a review of a government decision to remove 28,000 hectares of private land [...]