This weekend, Ryerson’s Department of Architectural Science, in partnership with Moses Structural Engineers, will host TimberFever – an intense design and construction competition. Based on a reality television model, students will have just 36 hours to build a wooden structure – from the time they receive their mission until completion. The challenge, designed to promote…
As the voice of Canada’s forest industry, the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is proud to celebrate National Forest Week in Canada, September 20-26, 2015 and remind Canadians about the economic importance of the forest sector. National Forest Week is a weeklong celebration of our forests and the vital role they play in the…
Two of Canada’s biggest resources companies have endorsed a call for governments and industry to clearly assert the right of aboriginal communities to veto major projects that negatively affect their traditional territories. Suncor Energy Inc. and Tembec Inc. are members of the Boreal Leadership Council that is releasing a report Monday calling for the adoption…
This week in Jasper — an appropriate setting, it turns out — the Alberta Forest Products Association holds its annual general meeting. Paul Whittaker, the association’s president and chief executive, talked about pine beetles and other issues facing the industry in this province. BEETLES The mountain pine beetle is “Item 1” among issues of concern to the…
Parks Canada is preparing to spruce up the province’s only boreal forest. After decades of decline due to insect infestations and hungry moose, the federal agency says it will plant some 56,000 saplings over the next two years. Daniel Sinclair, education officer for the Bring Back the Boreal project, said trees will be planted on…
The B.C. government has approved a permit for logging on one of eight planned “cutblock” areas in the central Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island, which an environmental group says could reignite the war in the woods from the 1990s. “This type of old-growth forest is simply too rare to destroy, and the fact the government…
A northern Alberta timber project is on hold after an independent investigation found the deal between three Métis Settlements and a London-based energy group violated a provincial law. The KPMG investigation found that the East Prairie, Paddle Prairie and Peavine Métis Settlements violated the Métis Settlements Act by entering into a joint venture agreement with Active Energy…
Catalyst today announced the sale of approximately 250 hectares of surplus land in Powell River, British Columbia, for $4.5 million. The forested land is adjacent to the Powell River mill site. While the land was previously harvested by predecessor companies, it has never been the site of manufacturing activity. Catalyst had no plans to use…
Northern Pulp has released a study which they hope clears the air about the economic value of the mill to Pictou County, and the province. But some say the mill’s environmental impact has created an issue of trust with the community, especially the Pictou Landing First Nation. The economic study found Northern Pulp is responsible…
New Democrat candidate Bill Sundhu is supporting a plan to help forestry communities after what he says are years of neglect by Conservative and Liberal governments. Sundhu was echoing a plan put forth by NDP House Leader Peter Julian, a Lower Mainland MP who met with workers at a Nanaimo mill Wednesday to discuss the…