Doyle ’surprised’ by attacks over report

Liberal anger over review unfounded: auditor general
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
The furious response of Forests Minister Pat Bell to a report on private forest lands was auditor general John Doyle’s welcome-home greeting.
Doyle, who took up the auditor general’s position last October, arrived back in B.C. Tuesday from Perth, Australia, where he underwent major heart surgery.

Logging spikes when lands removed from licences: study

ighter rules in TFLs credited with sustainable harvest
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Logging rates increase dramatically on private lands taken out of tree farm licences, says a report released yesterday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Hot on the heels of an auditor general’s report which blasted former forests minister Rich Coleman for allowing Western Forest Products [...]

Scandals envelop Campbell’s Cabinet ministers

Scandals envelop Campbell’s Cabinet ministers
BRIAN HUTCHINSON, National Post
Something smells in British Columbia and for once, local pulp, paper, and lumber producers are not to blame. Most of their malodourous mills have been mothballed, putting thousands on the dole and forcing industry executives to find new sources of revenue.