Major forestry conference kicks off today

Over 600 delegates are in Prince George for the BC Council of Forest Industries Conference taking place at the Civic Centre for the next two days.

A number of speakers, panels and presentations are on tap for the event with BC Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Terry Teegee slated to provide the opening keynote speech this morning (Thursday) at 8:30.

In addition, a Canada/US Relations and Forest Products Trade panel is scheduled for 12:30 and will include BC Hydro Chair and former Premier Glen Clark, Former Federal Minister for Industry, Asia- Pacific Gateway James Moore and Fellow & Lead, Canada-US Relations Strategy, Public Policy Forum Mark Cameron.

BC Forests Minister Ravi Parmar has a pair of speaking engagements lined up for Friday, while Premier David Eby will deliver his keynote address tomorrow (Friday) at 12:30 pm.


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