By Veronica Beltran

caribou protection

MP Bob Zimmer releases statement on province’s caribou protection strategy

Jun 21, 2019 | 11:08 AM

PRINCE GEORGE–MP Bob Zimmer released a statement after the announcement from the BC Government on the two year interim moratorium June 20.

Zimmer says that the moratorium was supposed to be an “only if all else fails” option which he says it wasn’t, and instead became their first plan of action.

“I care about caribou, conservation and doing what needs to be done to bring the herds back but it needs to be done through real and sincere consultation with the backcountry experts who truly understand caribou and their habitat.”–Bob Zimmer, Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies

The interim moratorium would put a hold on new resource development in the northeastern parts of BC.

“I am deeply concerned that this interim moratorium will lead to permanent restrictions, especially under this current provincial government that is determined to keep all resources in the ground. I fail to see how pushing pause on natural resource development will “limit economic impacts” as Minister Donaldson would have us believe.”–Bob Zimmer, Member of Parliament for Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies

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