The U.S. Lumber Coalition has filed a petition asking the U.S. Department of Commerce to investigate Canadian softwood lumber shipments with an eye to potentially levying new duties, kicking off a fresh round of litigation between two countries with a long history of trade disputes over wood. The petition is said to be hundreds of…
The American lumber lobby filed a petition Friday with the United States government alleging Canadian lumber is being subsidized by provinces like B.C., and dumped at discount prices into the U.S. market. The coalition’s petition is expected to result in heavy enough penalties on Canadian lumber producers to force shift curtailments and mill closures. Mills…
David Palmer of Fredericton is looking for nominations of a different kind to be included in a new book. The longtime forester wants nominations for a second edition of The Great Trees of New Brunswick. The first edition was produced 30 years ago by the late David Folster and the Canadian Forestry Association of New Brunswick. The book included…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California’s drought stricken forests. In…
A seemingly disgrunted (but likely tongue-in-cheek) reader argues that due democratic process was not adhered to in nominating the gray jay to be Canada’s national bird (“Choice of gray jay an utter failure of democracy,” letter, Nov. 18). Let’s dispel that argument. In January 2015, the Royal Canadian Geographic Society asked Canadians to help choose…
The province is preparing to stand with our lumber industry, as the next softwood dispute begins to heat up. The US Lumber Coalition has gone to its government claiming provinces across our country provide trees at discounted prices to our softwood producers, and so it’s asking for levies to be imposed. Minister of Advanced Education…
The office of Canada’s International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland is warning Canadian softwood lumber producers to prepare for a potentially costly trade war with the U.S. In an email sent to RCI and a number of other media Alex Lawrence, Freeland’s spokesman, warns the U.S. Lumber Coalition is expected to submit petitions to the Department…
Based on the past several Canada-U.S. lumber trade wars going back to 1982, there are two safe bets to make today, at the outset of the next round of hostilities. One is that it’s going to take years to reach a definitive conclusion, during which an incalculable amount of money will be spent on legal…
A spokesman for International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says the U.S. Lumber Coalition is expected to submit petitions to the Department of Commerce on Friday, requesting an investigation in the ongoing softwood lumber dispute. Softwood lumber is excluded from the continental trade agreement and lumber producers in both countries continually bicker over whether Canadian companies’…
The forestry sector can play a key role in creating a sustainable future that makes better use of leftover material, converting it to alternative fuel sources. Susan Wood-Bohm was the keynote speaker at UNBC’s Doug Little Memorial Lecture Thursday night, named BioCleantech: New Opportunities for Canada’s Forest Sector. “BioCleantech which is the concept of using…