![]() KPMG, the global accounting firm, has served as both environmental auditor for the project and financial auditor for Canfor, a forestry conglomerate with $6 billion in annual revenue. Project audit reports point to another, less examined, point of failure that may have contributed to what the court calls “irreparable harm.” In 2021, a provincial court suspended the approval of new logging permits, finding that the provincial government had promoted “intensive use” by forestry companies and other industries that left the Blueberry River First Nations’ territory and wildlife “drastically altered.” ![]() Instead, the project allowed companies including forestry giant Canfor Corp., to overharvest timber, damage native people’s territory and threaten their way of life.įirst Nations members sent letters to the logging companies and the government, but their concerns “always fell on deaf ears,” said Dominic, a council member from the Blueberry River community. In 2015, after more than a decade of intensive logging, Dominic and the Blueberry River First Nations sued the provincial government alleging that it had approved a “sustainable forest management” plan that failed to protect the forest. Image: Courtesy Fort St John Pilot Project An aerial view of devastated forestland on Blueberry River First Nations’ territory. The land was once covered in boreal forest and laced with clear streams. Sherry Dominic and her family once fished, hunted moose and picked berries here, following traditions of the native Blueberry River First Nations that stretch back hundreds of years in Canada’s westernmost province. It is replaced by a vast expanse of brush and stumps scarring the clear-cut forestland. John in British Columbia, a dense line of spruce and pine abruptly ends. Just past mile 73 on the highway that connects Canada to Alaska, north of the small city of Fort St.
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