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Resource Extraction & Export platforms

Here's what the candidates in Peace River North, and their parties, are promising.

Forestry

BC Liberals
  • Reinstate the Rural Dividend Fund.
  • Implement a market-pricing stumpage system.
  • Modernize forest management practices.
  • Aggressively defend BC's interests in softwood lumber trade issues.
  • Increase investments in silviculture.
  • Support development of mass timber structural products.

BC NDP
  • Dedicate a specific portion of the annual allowable cut to higher value producers who create new jobs for workers in BC.
  • Plant more trees.

Government support for workers

We don't have any BC Liberals policies on Government support for workers.

BC NDP
Establish a new Worker Training & Job Opportunity Office to maximize the impact of an Economic Recovery Plan for workers and communities, with a focus on retraining, supporting communities facing job loss, developing higher value goods, and accessing new global markets.

LNG

BC Liberals
  • Expedite Indigenous-lead LNG export projects through collaborative agreements with Indigenous groups.
  • Work with Indigenous groups to establish accelerated review and approval processes.

Mining

BC Liberals
  • Implement a fully online digital regulatory system by 2025.
  • Improve the process for mine development, permitting, inspection, and remediation, and cut permit-processing time in half.
  • Pursue benefit sharing for small and rural communities.

BC NDP
Create a Mining Innovation Hub to identify and support innovation, offer training for workers in new technologies, regulatory excellence, environmental management, and low-carbon approaches.