by Working Forest | Apr 8, 2016 | Archives
Forest products are big business in B.C. The sector contributes more than $12 billion to the GDP of British Columbia and employs 145,000 people in the province directly or indirectly. “Government and industry have a shared interest in making sure the industry remains...
by Working Forest | Apr 8, 2016 | Archives
B.C.’s forests minister says while the once mighty forest industry in this province is currently very healthy, more needs to be done to keep it competitive in the face of challenges from both inside and outside B.C. Steve Thomson, who spoke to delegates at the...
by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to northern Ontario today as he continues to talk up his government’s infrastructure spending plans. Trudeau is expected to make an announcement in Liberal-friendly Sudbury, where city officials have been hoping for federal funding...
by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives
The implementation of a more restrictive plan to protect the boreal caribou could cost thousands of jobs in affected regions, reminds the MEI. On Tuesday, the Quebec government promised to put in place an action plan—without providing any details—to favour better...
by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives
Alberta is home to the first commercial-scale plant in Canada to extract a natural substance in trees called lignin for the development of sustainable new value-added products. West Fraser, a diversified forest products company with operations across Western Canada,...
by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives
A Superior Court Justice has dismissed an injunction to stop logging around the Highway 144 community of Benny, northwest of Greater Sudbury. “The applicants have made impassioned and effective submissions,” Justice Edward Gareau wrote in his three-page...
