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Money in the Earth's Bank: Preservation of Canada's Forest

celsias.com — In Canada, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently pledged to protect 225,000 square kilometers (55 million acres) of the Far North Boreal Forest and has banned all mining and logging operations there.

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  • StevieJanowski, on 04/02/2009, -0/+5Let's take control of Canada and cut down all of their trees, eh
  • inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3Good those pesky Canadians need to be saving some Green up there! LOL
  • inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3"the preservation of the boreal forest is also a revolutionary step forward in sustainable land use"

    No it's not. It's a ban on use of forest. There's nothing about sustainable exploitation here. Exploitation is removed from the equation completely.

    This is to preserve an untouched forest. Not about sustainable land use. The rest of the forest is up for grabs for sustainable land use.

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