The BC Wildfire Service, in conjunction with BC Timber Sales and the Kaslo and District Community Forest Society, is planning to conduct two prescribed burns in the Kootenay Lake Fire Zone. Burning will take place between Thursday through Saturday (October 8-10, 2015) weather conditions permitting. The BC Wildfire Service, in a prepared media statement, said…
Canada needs an urban-tree strategy and the New Democrats are the party to give us one, Ottawa Centre candidate Paul Dewar said Wednesday morning. It’s both just about the dippiest of Dipper promises you can imagine and exactly the sort of thing Dewar should be doing as his party’s major candidate in Ottawa. Ottawa Centre…
Marathon’s mayor said his town is in a better position to promote alternative uses for its waterfront following Wednesday’s update about the ongoing demolition of the local pulp mill. “The meeting went well,” said Rick Dumas. Dumas and other town officials met with Tembec, the former mill co-owner overseeing the tear-down project overlooking Lake Superior….
In a statement in the Legislature today, Premier Christy Clark underscored the importance of stability in Canada-United States softwood lumber trade to British Columbia. The 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement between Canada and the U.S. expires on Oct. 12, 2015. The current agreement ended five years of litigation and returned $4 billion of $5 billion in…
FPInnovations is celebrating after receiving consecutive accolades from well-respected industry associations in September. On September 15, the Canadian Institute of Forestry-Institut forestier du Canada (CIF-IFC) honoured FPInnovations as the 2015 Canadian Forest Management Group Achievement Award recipient. The award recognizes outstanding achievements made by teams or groups of natural resource managers, researchers or non-government-organization groups…
Despite 10 years of committing itself to safe practices, WorkSafeBC says the B.C. forest industry still harbours a culture that accepts risk as part of the job. The additional cost of safety is still an issue between contractors and licensees, and workers still feel they can be blacklisted for refusing to do work that they…
Representives of the extractive industries that drive Northwestern Ontario’s economy believe the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement will bring them prosperity. The TPPA deal signed in Atlanta on Sunday will lock Canada into a free trade area of 12 countries on both shores of the Pacific Ocean. Together, they encompass two-fifths of the entire global economy. Forest…
On July 24, faller Jeremy Tanaka was working on northern Vancouver Island when he was struck and killed by a falling hemlock tree. The tree had been accidentally uprooted by a piece of heavy equipment, striking the unsuspecting faller and killing him. The tragedy of Tanaka’s death is that he was killed in an operation…
A British-based manufacturing company is considering switching its B.C. tree-planting program from farmland to areas deforested by fire or pine beetles. Reckitt Benckiser Group plc added another three farms to its B.C. land holdings over the summer, prompting an accusation in the legislature that it was breaking its promise to suspend planting trees on farmland….
There are about 150 employees at Canfor-Vavenby and their payroll is close to $20 million per year, according to division manager Steve Planeta. Overall, the division brings in nearly $100 million per year to the local economy, he said. Those statistics were among the information passed along during a public tour of the sawmill facility held Sept….