November 19, 2001 é Over The Edge Page 3 Environmentalists log

complaints over forestry act.

soto By Colleen O'Grady

“The NDP is alive and well and Fighting like Hell!” says Joy MacPhail Leader of the NDP party. She came to UNBC to encor- age a new generation of NDP members and to illustrate the diffi- cencies of the current Liberal Govenment. She was invited by the PSSA

By Lorna Mace, The Martlet

VICTORIA (CUP) -- British Columbia’s Liberal govern- ment will introduce legislation next spring to compensate logging companies for the province’s newly protected forests.

In a press release, Premier Gordon Campbell said the proposed act will "protect families and forest communi- ties by defining and securing working forests inBritish Columbia." ;

The Liberals plan to include their proposed act in the Forest Land Reserve (FLR),

which presently applies only ,

to private lands.

Creating the FLR was viewed as a positive step by environmentalists because it prevented urban and devel- opmental damage.

But the new Liberal propos- al will extend the FLR to pub- lic lands, which has some environmentalists concerned.

"The new FLR would pre- vent deletions of the loggable timber on public lands due to parks, watershed reserves and land claims; hence it

Nights With the Symphony A Review of the PGSO’s Latest Shows

By Lorenzo Sia

The Prince George Symphony Orchestra (PGSO) has had a good start for the 2001-2002 season. With their new conductor and music director, Wallace Leung, the PGSO has started off with a series of exciting

and adventurous pieces ranging from the early Classical period to the

French Impressionist - Late Romantic Eras.

-Last October 6th, the PGSO launched into the new season beginning with their Masterworks Series program entitled ‘Masterworks One: A Fifth of Beethoven’ which fea- tured two of Beethoven’s works, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, op.73 ‘Emperor and the Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op.67. To top the evening, there was a perfor- mance of Kulesha’s

‘Celebration Overture’. These pieces were performed at Vanier Hall at Prince George Secondary School. Due to the proximity to the tragic events of September 11th, both the ‘O Canada’ and ‘Star Spangled Banner’ were played. Comments from the patrons included the favourite piece for the night which was the piano concerto.

Last October 28, the PGSO moved venues from Vanier Hall to the Prince George Playhouse for the inaugura- tion of their Playhouse Classics Series program enti- tled ‘Classics One: Classical Gems’. The week before the performance, Leung came to UNBC to speak to the CORE 101 class about what was to be performed on the begin- ning night. Works performed that night were Mozart's ‘Cosi fan Tutte’ Overture,

Schubert’s ‘Symphony No. 5 in B-flat’, Schnittke’s ‘Moz-Art a la Haydn’, and Haydn’s ‘Symphony No. 104 in D Major “London”. Students reflecting on this perfor- mance will recall the dynamic nature of the music per- formed, especially the piece by Schnittke which many described as ‘unique’ and ‘interesting’. For the most part, students enjoyed both the Schubert and Haydn symphonies.

On Saturday, November 24, the PGSO will be per- forming at Vanier Hall for their inaugural performance of the Pops Series entitled ‘Pops One: Music of the World’ which will feature guest artists ‘No Name Cows’ with guest conductor Bradley Thachuk.

would be a major impediment to environmental protection and justice for First Nations," said Ken Wu, campaign coor- dinator for the Western Canada Wilderness Campaign (WCWC).

The province must pass its working forest law within 18 months of legislation, giving it until December 2002. According to a similar pro- posal. considered when the NDP was still in power, 43 million hectares of public land were to be turned into perma- nent logging areas.

Wu said that would have included a majority of the province’s existing forests outside already existing parks.

He also said a "no net loss" clause in the act could have a dire impact on __ future prospects for forest protec- tion. The included "no net loss" stipulation means in order for further land to be protected, the government would have to compensate the logging companies, either in already protected land, or in dollars.

"We fight for the protection of ancient forests in specific places, but this prevents us from protecting any place in the province that we want to protect in the future," said Wu. "It's the worst thing imag- inable for people who want to protect old growth."

The Liberals claim the new act would respect aboriginal lands. "The working forest designation would be made without prejudice to aborigi- nal rights and title," said a recent government press release.

Wu, however, said the "no net loss" clause creates a legislative hurdle for aborigi- nals because logging compa- nies could demand costly compensation for lost forest land after treaties are settled.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management said he couldn't yet comment on the act but said a proposal will be presented to the public in the spring.

Attention All

Clubs!

The UNBC Outdoors Club chal- lenges you to brighten the

Christmas of a needy family!

We want to do the Adopt-A-Family program through the Salvation Army and put together Christmas hampers for families in need.

Our goal and challenge to UNBC clubs is to put together 50

hampers, and we would like your support to make this pos- sible. This entails a $25 donation for a turkey for the family, and a box with treats and Gifts for the kids. So...Give yourself some warm and fuzzies this year and Adopt-a-Family!!

| will organize everything!! All you need to do is e-mail me with the number of families that you wish to adopt. We are adopting 4, beat us! For more information, or if you can’t make it to a computer, you can call me at 564-4486.

Cathy Wood

UNBC Outdoors Club

e-mail: catzpad @ mag-net.com Phone: 564-4486