David Caulfield has a solution for communities in British Columbia whose livelihoods from the timber industry are threatened by a tiny but devastating beetle: mining.
The mountain pine beetle, a rice grain-sized insect, has munched its way through large tracts of forest in Canada's biggest lumber-producing province. A government study warns that the bug could kill 80 percent of the salable pine in the timber-dependent B.C. Interior over the next eight years.
"One of the key areas for expanded mineral exploration activity includes areas in central BC devastated by the pine beetle kill," said Caulfield, who is president of the British Columbia & Yukon Chamber of Mines.

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Tightening the Caulfield family’s grip on the levers of global power, Vincent Caulfield was elected president of a powerful overseas organization earlier this month. Who is Vincent Caulfield? What does he want with trucks? Why have we never seen this bearded man and Uncle Rich in the same place? Click here for details, or here for news coverage.

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