Growing up in the Ottawa Valley, Derek Nighbor appreciated from a young age the importance of the forest sector to the local economy. “My brother and I were fortunate enough to earn good money in the summer on the same corrugated box making factory floor where my grandfather and father earned their livelihoods,” said the CEO of …
Illinois-based equipment manufacturer Deere and Company, which sells John Deere construction equipment among other products, announced a drop-off in sales for its third quarter worldwide in its third-quarter earnings summary. Construction and forestry sales decreased 24 per cent for the quarter and 21 per cent for nine months mainly as a result of lower shipment…
If there is one thing I have learned from the past four years of producing my new documentary seriesHeartwood: A West Coast Forestry Documentree, it is that there is no shortage of people who all agree that B.C.’s forest sector is in desperate need of some new ideas – particularly on the coast. I have…
The mayor of The Pas says the town was shocked to learn its main employer, Tolko Industries, is closing down. The forestry products company employs 332 people in The Pas, a town of about 5,500 people. All Tolko employees will be laid off when operations end Dec. 2, 2016. “It’s just so shocking, so unbelievable, so mind-numbing that we’ve got…
A leading Canadian public health official has commended New Brunswick’s review of a controversial herbicide used by the forestry industry and NB Power. Dr. John McLaughlin, the chief science officer and senior scientist with Public Health Ontario, reviewed the report released by New Brunswick’s acting chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell examining the use of glyphosate…
Photo: Dr.Oliver Konter, Mainz More than a thousand years ago, in the 940s, Europe was a very different place. The Byzantine Empire was at its peak and Vikings sailed the seas. In the midst of it all sat a little sapling, one that would grow into a tree that still thrives today. According to scientists, a Bosnian…
With a fall deadline approaching, Canada’s chief negotiator in the softwood-lumber talks with the United States says the two sides remain far apart on several key issues. Martin Moen told a parliamentary committee on Thursday that negotiations for a new softwood deal have continued at an intensive pace with engagement reaching the highest levels between…
As an October deadline approaches, Canada and the U.S. continue to grapple with a trade dispute that sometimes seems like its been going on forever. Despite being the world’s largest partners, an agreement on softwood lumber continues to elude both sides, raising serious questions about trade, sovereignty and the real nature of Canada-U.S. relations, The…
Ottawa is leaving the forestry sector vulnerable to another punitive trade dispute with its inability to secure a new softwood lumber agreement, says Kamloops MP Cathy McLeod. B.C.’s forestry sector is particularly at risk. More than 15,000 jobs were lost in the province in the last softwood lumber dispute with the U.S., which extracted $5.4…
LNG Canada’s decision to delay deciding to build its $40-billion liquefied natural gas export project hit Ellis Ross, the Haisla First Nation’s chief councillor, in the middle of a summer of more buoyant news for the B.C. economy. While the province’s urban centres were experiencing hiring in the tech sector and record tourism, Ross has been bracing for layoffs in his community,…