Premier Christy Clark said her first conversation with Canada’s prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau was about the softwood-lumber agreement. “We want to see the agreement renewed,” she told the Merritt Herald at one of her stops in Merritt on Friday. The premier was in Merritt to open the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology trades building. “Canada gave…
British Columbia’s government has been meeting with the forest industry to develop plans to save endangered caribou, and the province appears to have launched its controversial wolf cull program to avoid putting further restrictions on logging. The wolf kill, which started last January, has drawn international condemnation from environmentalists, but the B.C. government has defended…
An Atikameksheng Anishnawbek band member who says burial grounds and his family’s traditional hunting territory are being jeopardized by logging in the Benny Forest west of Sudbury isn’t giving up his effort to stop cutting and aerial spraying in the area. Clyde McNichol and his supporters say the cutting block closest to his people’s graves…
The building has a name that has to be lived up to, and Emily Carr University is already well on its way to being the innovators of wood design called for in that title. The Vancouver-based university is moving in and setting up its engineering programs that will focus on ways of making wood work…
Generating stations in both Atikokan and Thunder Bay are waving the environmental flag for being leaders in sustaining healthy forests while using its byproducts to produce renewable bioenergy. Wednesday was National Bioenergy Day across North America and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) opened the doors to its Thunder Bay plant for tours. The plant switched to…
Port Hawkesbury Paper may have to jump through an extra hoop if it wants to buy renewable power from an independent producer under the province’s new retail electricity system. The Point Tupper mill can’t be a customer in the retail market for the next four years without approval from the provincial regulator, Nova Scotia Power…
BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has postponed logging operations at its Reed Road cutblock while it considers options. Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) hailed this as a victory earlier this month. “BCTS has deferred or postponed the Reed Road [Timber Sale Licence] – it has not been dropped or removed from our timber inventory,” BCTS planning forester…
In 1999, residents of the Upper Clearwater Valley and the local forest district agreed that the corridor of private and public land surrounding the road leading to Wells Gray Provincial Park had unique values. The values were documented in guidelines in a local resource use plan. The guidelines were endorsed by the district manager, who was…
Kalesnikoff Lumber has given the public until Nov. 1 to comment on its new forest stewardship plan for its licences in the Arrow Lakes and Kootenay Lake areas. The five year plan was first made public in August, and Tyler Hodgkinson, the company’s woodlands manager, presented it to the Regional District of Central Kootenay board…
It’s not just for show, you can actually take it for a spin. CBC Daybreak Kamloops got the first sneak peak into a car made out of a single piece of western red cedar. It’s all hush-hush until the big launch of it later this year. “It has a lot of character, not just a round…