Heavy lifting remains to bring silviculture contractors into Forestry Service Providers Compensation Fund
When the B.C. government passed the Forest Service Providers Protection Act in 2010 it was intended to provide forestry operators who contract to licensees protection against losses should a client become insolvent. The then recent bankruptcy of Pope & Talbot made it clear that logging firms, silviculture contractors, seedling nurseries and forestry consultants were exposed … Read more