Unfulfilled Promises: The State of BC's Old Growth Forests

Following new allegations from the BBC that a UK power station is "burning wood from some of the world's most precious forests" in British Columbia, Bertie speaks to Richard Robertson about Canada's forestry sector.

Richard Robertson is a Forest Campaigner at Stand.Earth, and recently contributed to a report prepared by numerous NGOs, which accused the Canadian government's own forestry report of being “akin to an industry ad, promoting questionable and misleading claims.”

Bertie and Richard discuss these findings, the biomass industry, certification and regulation, and whether Canadian forestry deserves its leading reputation.

Further reading: 

• Read the report by Canadian environmental organisations:  The State Of The Forest In Canada: Seeing Through The Spin
• Read the Canadian government's own report, which the new publication responds to: The State of Canada’s Forests
• Read Stand.Earth's report about their old growth satellite monitoring tool: Forest Eye: An Eye on Old Growth Destruction
• 'Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood', BBC, 28/2/24

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