u/ForestBlue46

As of this morning, Fairwinds/Seacliff have illegally trespassed on private property with heavy machinery and are currently degrading the Schooner Cove shore frontage, crating slope instability, and endangering people and wildlife. The excavator ran right over vegetation which was teeming with wildlife.

NONE OF THIS IS LEGAL.

RDN will not enforce the bylaws.

The people in Nanaimo, Fairwinds, and Victoria need to be very aware that any Seacliff Development is rife with corruption and destruction to the environment. They have NO respect for environmental laws, residents safety, residents rights or fair process.

This is not a housing project either. It's a small walkway to nowhere. The collusion between RDN staffers and Fairwinds/Seacliff is so bad that RDN will not even enforce their own bylaws when they're violated. In fact, RDN changes the bylaws after violations occur to accommodate this developer.

This is the definition of corruption.

I really don't love the tone of this article blaming people based on skin colour but Mennonites originally from Canada have been altering the landscape of Bolivia and growing soy for a long time. Even though they have been there so long they should respect the value of forests and not be farming at this scale causing so much destruction. I value farmers and farming very much but not anyone clearing vast tracts of forested land to do it.

Without forests we get heat islands, drought, flooding, erosion, biodiversity loss and so on.

>The main reason people clear forests in Bolivia is to make way for cattle. It’s typically cheaper to buy forested land and remove the trees than to acquire existing pasture, says Daniel Larrea, science and technology program director at Conservación Amazónica, a Bolivian NGO. Plus, under the country’s legal system, landowners risk losing their land in Bolivia if they don’t demonstrate that they’re using it “productively,” such as by raising cattle for beef, effectively creating an incentive for deforestation.

>The other major source of forest loss in Bolivia is the rapid expansion of soy farms, the nation’s top export crop, by weight. Between 2001 and 2021, soy farms in Bolivia — which feed global demand for animal feed and soybean oil — destroyed some 2.2 million acres of forests, according to a 2023 report by the nonprofit Amazon Conservation Association (affiliated with Conservación Amazónica). That’s roughly the size of Puerto Rico.

>...Mennonites were among the first groups to introduce commercial soy farming to Bolivia, helping turn the country into a top-10 soy producer globally.

>Researchers estimate that Mennonites caused nearly a quarter of the soy-related deforestation in Bolivia over the last two decades — and that share has risen in more recent years, according to Amazon Conservation Association’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program.

Surging deforestation is more due to expanding agricultural production as a state policy. Food companies and consumers are also at fault in driving this deforestation due to demand for meat and soy-based livestock feed. Which largely goes to poultry and pig feed. Choosing pasture-raised meat and eggs would largely alleviate this problem.

(Bolding mine).

https://www.vox.com/climate/487548/bolivia-deforestation-mennonites-climate-change

I can't believe that even some of the last redwoods are at risk.

"A majestic grove of 1,000-year-old redwoods in Northern California is facing an imminent threat — and it needs your help. 

Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County shelters one of the last protected stands of accessible old-growth redwood trees in the world. But a plan to widen Highway 101 to make room for oversized trucks would cut into and pave over the root systems of the thousand-year-old trees, causing dieback of the canopy and possible loss of parts of the grove. 
There's no reason to imperil these majestic trees, as other cost-effective, environmentally sound solutions to improve the movement of goods along the coast exist.

This may be our last chance to save these irreplaceable redwoods. Urge California Governor Gavin Newsom to save Richardson Grove."

https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/m49eux3MnkmNy6O6AZJCZA2

The province hopes to boost logging rates. But slashing the fee on exports risks more mill closures, one advocate warns.

How does what the BC NDP is doing make any sense?

"As pulp mill and sawmill jobs plummet in number, British Columbia’s Forests Ministry is opening the door to more exports of unprocessed logs, including those produced from trees cut down in old-growth forests.

Under current rules, companies wanting to ship raw logs from B.C. to buyers in China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere pay a “fee in lieu of manufacturing” — a penalty designed to encourage more domestic log manufacturing.

But in February, the provincial government quietly lowered those fees. The reduced fees will make it more profitable to ship logs away, and although the government says it will incentivize more logging, others warn that the change risks undermining already precarious manufacturing jobs in the province’s struggling forest industry."

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/30/BC-Quietly-Cuts-Penalty-Exporting-Unprocessed-Logs/

If you find your comments removed it's probably because you called someone stupid or told them to f off.

Feel free to disagree but please be civil about it.