Forestry officials in Indonesia are training elephants to help with the management of the local area. Trained elephants are now able to assist firefighter crews to put out forest fires, and prevent them from igniting. In the elephant conservation centre of Siak district, as many as 23 elephants have been trained to be ‘forest watchdogs’. Carrying water…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has approved a $32.5-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by investors who lost money when Sino-Forest Corp. collapsed in 2012 amid allegations of fraud. Several Canadian banks and other financial institutions that helped the Chinese forestry company raise millions on the financial markets agreed to the settlement back…
Dennis Day was all ready to protest a Mi’kmaq moose hunt that Parks Canada approved for Monday on North Mountain in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, but there was nothing to protest. Day, a resident of nearby Cape North, set up camp along the Cabot Trail just outside the park on Sunday night, but Mi’kmaq…
The Highway of Heroes Tribute and Forests Ontario have launched a campaign to honour Canada’s fallen by planting 117,000 trees — one for every soldier since Confederation — along Highway 401 between Trenton and Toronto. In 2007, the portion of Highway 401 between Glen Miller Road in Trenton and Keele Street in Toronto was officially…
Prince George, B.C.- Conifex has made its decision, and the El Dorado sawmill in the Southern US will be upgraded first. Conifex had been assessing both its idled Mackenzie Site One sawmill and its recently purchased El Dorado facility in Arkansas as to which facility would be at the top of the priority list for…
The union is decrying the closing of the Canal Flats sawmill, which will officially close up after nearly 100 years of operation in the Columbia Valley in various forms. According to Doug Singer, the president of the United Steelworkers Local 1-405, the union members actually ran the last log and boards through in late September…
Weyerhaeuser Co. is buying Plum Creek Timber Co. for $8.44 billion to form what is expected to be one of the world’s biggest timberland and forest products companies. The company will keep the Weyerhaeuser name and have more than 13 million acres of timberland, the companies said Sunday. It will be worth $23 billion based…
Seven more biomass installations are in line for government facilities early next year, says Energy Minister Paula Biggar. Already in place at 13 government properties, Biggar says the heating method reduces greenhouse gas and supports local industry. “Biomass heat is a local, renewable, carbon neutral resource, and government is leading the way for biomass heat,”…
Sometimes you just wonder why business people even bother. Making money can be so damn hard. Back in 1890, David Gilmour was an entrepreneur and a go-getter. A git’er done kinda guy. His lumber mill was one of the biggest in the world, supplying both American and Canadian builders. But he had a problem. His…
B.C.’s exports are forecast to grow by six per cent next year, according to a new study by Export Development Canada — Canada’s export credit agency. “It’s really a broad-based increase. We actually get some commodity price increases,” said Peter Hall, chief economist at Export Development Canada. He says there are large volumes of metals and ores available and in 2016…