With the province’s new carbon tax expected to cost Calgary Transit at least $3.75 million over the next two years, city bureaucrats may soon study if switching buses to renewable diesel is a good idea. Jeff Brookman, with Calgary-based renewable fuels company Candaxa Energy, spoke to city councillors at a transportation and transit committee meeting…
Canada’s lumber industry is in a stronger position to weather a U.S. trade battle than it was during the last major clash a decade ago, but smaller Quebec and Ontario producers would be particularly vulnerable to duties that may arrive within weeks, industry observers say. B.C. producers such as West Fraser Timber, Canfor and Interfor have hedged their bets, purchasing sawmills in the U.S. primarily…
President Donald Trump’s nominee for United States Trade Representative is vowing to end the long-running softwood-lumber dispute with Canada – whether by cutting a deal or fighting it out in trade court – and take Ottawa to task for not cracking down on counterfeit goods destined for the U.S. In a clear signal of the…
Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre and FPInnovations announced three winners of the initial stage of the “FPInnovations-ARCTIC Forest Inventory Challenge.” Arbonaut Oy, Lim Geomatics Inc. and Object Raku Technology Inc. were selected from a pool of global innovators and will use the funding to further develop their remote-sensing solutions to conduct fast and accurate forest inventories….
Canadian forestry firm Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is kicking off a new multimillion-dollar cleantech project with the help of the federal government. Working with an Australian-based startup company, which has developed a process that uses to convert biomass into biofuel, Canfor plans to turn wood waste from its three Prince George, B.C. pulp mills into…
New Brunswick’s Forest Products Commission has put off a two-day hearing that is key to the regulatory authority of the province’s woodlot marketing boards. The appeal to the commission was launched by JD Irving Limited, AV Group, W & R Gillespie Ltd, and several forestry contractors after the Southern New Brunswick Forest Products Marketing Board tried…
While B.C. forestry companies face a long-term decline in the annual allowable cut in the Interior, thanks to the mountain pine beetle infestation, B.C. companies on the coast have been exporting raw logs, mostly to China, in record volumes in recent years. According to a recent Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) report, one in…
A decision to cut down swaths of a Canadian forestry company’s claims against Greenpeace has survived an attempted legal challenge before Ontario’s top court. That means a $7 million lawsuit by Resolute Forest Products against the environmental group will now proceed on a narrower but still substantive tract. In the latest development in the bitter…
Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced the indefinite idling of its paper mill located in Thorold, Ontario. The facility, which employed over 100 workers, has an annual production capacity of approximately 197,000 metric tons of newsprint on one machine using 100 percent recycled furnish. The difficult decision to proceed with the indefinite idling is driven by the…
Diaper-wearing baby boomers are coming to the rescue of the beleaguered paper industry. As the world population ages, sales are climbing for absorbent hygiene products that have gotten more comfortable and discreet. Demand is projected to grow 4 per cent in 2017, according to ERA Forest Products Research, boosting prospects for companies including International Paper…