VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark's shuffle of B.C. resource ministries is not a reversal of the previous government's effort to streamline industrial project approvals, the minister responsible says.
Kelowna-Mission MLA Steve Thomson has added forests and lands to his title along with natural resource operations. Thomson was assigned last year to oversee the centralization of land use permits that remains the most controversial of former premier Gordon Campbell's changes.
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