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Does the Great White North deserve its green reputation? “From Fort Nelson in northern British Columbia to Rocky Mountain House in central Alberta to the vast Tintina Trench region in the southern Yukon and over east to Yellowknife on Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, the landscape is under siege. The extraction industries are running the show, tearing, blasting, sucking, and cutting every diamond, gold nugget, drop of oil, chunk of coal, and stick of timber they can access.”
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A lot of this is alarmist poppycock. So half our economy is based on resource extraction. Sorry. All that paper, wood, metal, natural gas and oil you folks buy at Wal-Mart has to come from somewhere. While in the past there was certainly a rape-and-pillage attitude, this has changed a lot: http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/soerpt/1protectedareas/percent.html . The second-largest industry in BC is now tourism—tourists flock by car, boat and plane to take in our incredible beauty. Our harbours are full of huge cruise ships from April through October and millions of visitors and hikers take in the huge expanses of untouched wilderness.
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