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[Victoria Watcher]

Two months ago in January, comedian Adam Carolla predicted that the rebuilding process after the California wildfires would be a nightmare because of the progressive policies in the state. He said it would be near to impossible to get a building permit.

It has now been 75 days since the fires. How many building permits have been issued for Pacific Palisades? FOUR. Not 400, not 40. FOUR.

It looks like Adam Carolla pretty much called this one, doesn’t it?

 

https://www.thegatew...-days-after-ca/

[Victoria Watcher]

Protecting B.C. old-growth forests could yield $10.9B in benefits, report finds

 

 

That number could quadruple to $43.1 billion over the next century if 100% of old growth trees were protected in the Okanagan and Prince George timber supply areas

 

 

 

Jens Wieting, a senior policy and science advisor with the Sierra Club BC — which partially funded the report — said the emerging trade war with the current U.S. administration appears to have placed the environment on the back-burner in favour of expanded resource extraction. 

 

 

 

That's quite a report.   It never really says how those billion of dollars materialize in real life.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...-finds-10500619

 

 

Stefan Labbé covers climate and environment solutions for Glacier Media's Central Desk.

That means he tells stories about how people are responding to problems linked to climate change — from the energy transition to migration and everything in between.

Labbé has broken stories on the B.C. government's unexpected axing of a municipal climate adaptation fund, the development of a federal atmospheric river warning system, and a story of the first doctor in the world to diagnose a patient with climate change, among others.

His on-the-ground reporting has been featured in interviews with national broadcaster CTV, and on such podcasts as The Big Story.

As a freelancer he has reported on returning jihadist fighters in Jordan, the fallout from a government-guerrilla peace deal in Colombia and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean.

Labbé's writing, photography and documentary work have appeared in dozens of publications, including The Guardian, The Tyee, the Globe & Mail and PBS NewsHour.

He holds a Master’s of Journalism from the University of British Columbia and previously worked as a staff reporter at a local newspaper, where he wrote features, shot photos, and covered the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

 

 

 

 

B.C. statistics show a significant rise in the value of all wood products exported over the past two years, which includes softwood lumber, cedar shakes and singles, and raw logs. In 2022, the value of those exports was more than $11 billion, up from $8 billion in 2020

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...billion in 2020.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 April 2025 - 01:52 AM.

[Barrister]

The problem remains that the US is increasing its tariff regime and that is going to reduce sales moving forward.

[dasmo]

Maybe a cedar 2x8 won’t cost us $45 anymore.