Long before global environmentalists had even heard of the oil sands, their Canadian target of predilection was the forest industry. Greenpeace and Forest Ethics waged savvy PR campaigns to persuade the world, and purchasers of wood and paper products, to boycott Canadian goods made from clear-cut forests. It was a roaring success. Celebrities took up…
To the Editor: When Christy Clark said she would make a new softwood lumber agreement with the United States her top priority with a new federal government, New Democrats voiced support. We believe that a vibrant forest industry is vital to our economy. Forest dependent communities in the province, BC forest companies, and those over…
It sounds a bit contradictory to call the province’s recent forestry trade mission to Japan and China a success when British Columbia’s lumber shipments into the region are on the slide. For industry officials, however, the trip at the end of November was about maintaining their presence, even during a slowdown in those countries, and…
Mill claims it had deal with firm to design, install pollution control systemNorthern Pulp is suing a company it alleges walked away from a contract to design and install an air pollution control system, a move the Pictou County mill claims caused the cost of the work to substantially increase.In a statement of claim filed…
Vermont officials say the state’s increasing forestry are due to the decline of the paper mill industry in Maine. Michael Snyder, commissioner of Vermont’s Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation, says that a significant market for the state’s wood is in jeopardy. People in Canada Get Wealthy Within A Month With This Offer! WATCH NOW!…
It sounds a bit contradictory to call the province’s recent forestry trade mission to Japan and China a success when British Columbia’s lumber shipments into the region are on the slide. For industry officials, however, the trip at the end of November was about maintaining their presence, even during a slowdown in those countries, and…
Jim Stanford is an adviser to Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union, and Harold Innis Industry Professor of Economics at McMaster University in Hamilton. By any definition, 2015 was a lousy year for Canada’s economy, complete with a technical recession, plunging oil prices and big stock market losses. Lurking in the statistics, however, is an…
Government subsidies for the Cape Breton paper mill have embroiled the province in another trade dispute. A previous dispute that came to a head in December led to hefty duties on U.S. imports of supercalendered paper from Canadian mills. In that case, complaints of unfair competition came from the other side of the border. Now…
The early 1990s was a pivotal time for the forest industry and for forest activism in British Columbia. Massive demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience resulted in hundreds of arrests in Clayoquot Sound in response to large-scale clear-cutting on the west coast of B.C. and Vancouver Island. International protests and market campaigns forced the government…
One little-known legacy of the now-expiring softwood lumber agreement: it spawned a massive, Canadian-funded humanitarian effort in the United States that people north of the border have never heard of. Funds dispersed with little fanfare under the decade-old Canada-U.S. deal built hundreds of houses in places like this once-underwater neighbourhood in New Orleans, affecting lives…