Forestry Giant Not Owed Compensation, BC Supreme Court Rules – The Tyee

Teal-Jones had argued it faced ‘constructive taking’ on Haida Gwaii.

A decision by the Supreme Court of British Columbia to reject a $75-million compensation claim made by a logging company that once operated on Haida Gwaii could have reverberations across the province as the government continues its reconciliation efforts with First Nations.

First Nations territories cover every corner of British Columbia. Similarly, B.C.’s forests are overlain by hundreds of renewable, long-term forest licences and tree farm licences that one provincial government after another granted to logging companies over the decades.

Over the years, as tensions have mounted in the face of protests to protect remnant old-growth forests, the conferring of those logging licences has sometimes resulted in big payouts to companies when the province designated new parks in areas previously earmarked for logging.

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