Short term gain for long term pain, updated
BC Stats updated data on raw log exports and the volume shipped out of province in March 2014 was up 24% from the preceding month. In the fiscal year ended March 31, producers exported 2.8 times the wood volume exported five years ago.
In fiscal years 2012 to 2014, log exports of BC accelerated, measuring10 times the volume of raw timber shipped in the three final years of the nineties. In the last five years, the volume of logs exports more than quadrupled from the volumes shipped out of province in the last five years of NDP administration.