Landmark logging agreement teetering
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A so-called landmark agreement between the B.C. government and Clayoquot Sound Natives over restricted tree-harvesting in that region may be felled before it's even enacted.
The chiefs from the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, which represents five bands on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, will not ratify the two-year interim agreement on logging if Premier Mike Harcourt's NDP government refuses to give them any decision-making power, Tla-qui-o-aht Chief Francis Frank said.
