You may be right. They are trying to find all sorts of ways to make use of this problematic resource.

Here is a site outlining the work being done.

http://www.bcfii.ca/industry_resources/mountain_pine_beetle_info.htm

Problem is that all of this still does not resolve the issues of assurances from the building code changes. 6 floors of wood a problem. Glance through the engineers reports and you are left feeling less than confident.

I think the province is trying to find a use for the countless un-exportable pine-beetle damaged trees still standing in B.C. There is a only a narrow window of opportunity left to harvest and mill these dead trees before they are totally worthless.
Apparently, the extent of destruction in B.C.’s forests is staggering. It’s pretty sad.