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By Wolfgang Depner A forest industry leader would like to cut down a plan by the previous government to limit the compensation of forest companies when land is transferred to First Nations, but British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby has defended the proposal. Kim Haakstad, president of the Council of Forest Industries, said it was unfair for government to ask businesses to absorb the costs. “But particularly right now, this is one more way that the government is making it hard for forest products manufacturing companies to continue to operate in British Columbia,” Haakstad said. The province compensated companies in 2003, when it took about 20 per cent of tenures to create BC Timber Sales. “I believe the same principle should apply,” she said. Confidential documents published in the Northern… <\/p>\n

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By Wolfgang Depner A forest industry leader would like to cut down a plan by the previous government to limit the compensation of forest companies when land is transferred to First Nations, but British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby has defended the proposal. Kim Haakstad, president of the Council of Forest Industries, said it was unfair for government to ask businesses to absorb the costs. “But particularly right now, this is one more way that the government is making it hard for forest products manufacturing companies to continue to operate in British Columbia,” Haakstad said. The province compensated companies in 2003, when it took about 20 per cent of tenures to create BC Timber Sales. “I believe the same principle should apply,” she said. Confidential documents published in the Northern... <\/p>\n

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