Sentences with phrase «log exports»

The very same thing that is happening with our raw log exports.

Many countries have enacted log export ban policies to protect forests or to bolster their domestic timber industry.

These are the most significant illegal log exports since the timber - fuelled civil wars of the Charles Taylor era, and threaten to undermine the progress the President has made in bringing order to the forest sector.

The deal increased raw log exports by saddling lumber exporters with a border tax but allowing raw logs to enter the U.S. duty - free.

VANCOUVER — B.C. raw log exports hit the second - highest monthly level in recorded history in November, with nearly three - quarters of a million cubic metres being shipped elsewhere for manufacturing, said B.C. New Democrat leader John Horgan today, blasting the Christy Clark...

Yes, log export dollars when turned into Lumber would increase the export dollars by at least 48 % while retaining and increasing domestic employment.

«The NDP are saying they want to ban all raw log exports right now... just a blanket ban all of a sudden, which is their very heartfelt position at the moment, would be so bad for so many families.»

He has said we need to end the raw log export free - for - all that has worsened since Christy Clark became premier, with 30,000 forestry jobs lost in B.C. on her government's watch.

«The Security Council's refusal to impose a ban on Liberian logs exports — due primarily to the objections of France and China — means that the international community's attempts to bring peace to Sierra Leone could soon be completely undone».

The conflict continues to this day, but log exports from Madagascar remain greatly reduced relative to this time last year.

Burmese log exports to China are growing much faster than the trees, many of which are hundreds of years old, can be replaced.

Siakor hired observers at three ports, collecting information on 80 percent of logging exports.

The RGC and the donor community have to put the strongest pressure on Vietnam, Laos and Thailand to support Cambodia's log export ban.

Large scale illegal log exports to Laos, which were halted in July 1998 as a result of Global Witness» pressure have resumed, despite Cambodia's commitment to crack down on illegal logging at the Tokyo CG meeting.

We helped limit raw log exports, launched the British Columbia Community Forest Association and used the Softwood Lumber dispute to reallocate 20 per cent of logging tenures across B.C.

NDP Leader John Horgan said as premier he would speak with Trudeau about energy, raw log exports and «a whole host of issues that I believe we have to play on this negotiation.»

By the end of November 2012, log exports were on pace to break that sad record.

New Democrats proposed: We will take steps to reduce raw log exports and get more value - added jobs out of B.C.'s forests and ensure B.C. logs create B.C. jobs.

While they rightly acknowledge that raw log exports are a symptom of market conditions, rather than a cause of the forestry industry's woes, they propose a very heavy handed approach by restricting log exports.

All three of Cambodia's neighbours are ignoring their public commitments to cooperate with the 31st December 1996 log export ban, although Thailand and Vietnam will undoubtedly claim these are Laotian logs.