Global Forest Watch confirms east side of Lake Winnipeg has more intact forest than west side

Hugh McFadyen, leader of the PC Party of Manitoba and Official Opposition Leader, has been showing his ignorance of Manitoba's natural environment by claiming there is more intact forest in western Manitoba than on the east side of Lake Winnipeg.
He is insisting that running BiPole 3 through the Heart of the Boreal is the environmentally responsible route because of this fact. During Question Period this past April in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly, Mr. McFadyen explained this argument by claiming Global Forest Watch—an environmental organization—told him that the west side had more intact forest. In response to this claim, Peter Lee, Director of Global Forest Watch Canada, sent a letter to all MLAs in Manitoba, explaining that their work concluded that there was more intact forest on the east side of Lake Winnipeg than the west side.

The letter and map can be found on our website here.

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