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Oil & gas activities in the Fort Nelson Forest District have a major impact on our forested land
base. These activities include seismic exploration of crude oil and natural gas features on and
under our land base. Also, there are sizeable pipeline networks and oil & gas processing facilities.
These impacts have great potential to impact the Timber Harvesting Land Base (THLB). Currently,
there is considerable uncertainty as to just how much of the land base is impacted. For more
information regarding possible impacts please refer to the TSR documents found on the
Timber Supply Review
district webpage.
To the credit of the Oil & Gas industry, they have made some significant attempts at lessening the
impact of their activities on the land base. One is to build ice bridges across S6 streams where
there is normally no requirement. Secondly, is that industry has been pro-active in attempting new
methods of establishing seismic lines, i.e. they are now much narrower than in the past and heavy
equipment operators are asked to find a more natural path through the woods - not necessarily a
straight line, called Low Impact Seismic (LIS). To the right is an example of newer seismic
lines...
For further information on on Oil & Gas activities in North Eastern BC, please visit the BC
Oil & Gas Commission (OGC)
website. Recently, the Peace and Fort Nelson Forest Districts assisted the OGC develop some
updated forestry guidelines.
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