The city is poised on the threshold of yet another pioneering effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the community. Utilizing biomass from locally collected wood waste, the city’s electrical utility is investigating a low carbon alternative to heating with natural gas, and fleshing out a plausible business case for constructing a plant to produce…
Wildfire numbers: Canadian Armed Forces members on the ground, fighting fires: 360 Evacuees staying in Cold Lake, Alta.: 758 Kilometres to drive from La Ronge, to Prince Albert, to Cold Lake: 654 Total evacuees receiving support from Saskatchewan Ministry of Social Services: 9,005 Active fires burning: 122 Year-to-date fires: 611 Total number of fires in 2014: 220 Fires…
A Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association (NEIA) conference this fall will focus on the province’s forestry-connected businesses, according to the organization. NEIA leadership has said Newleef 2015 — the annual event themed around the “green economy” — will be dedicated to discussion around opportunities for growth in the forestry sector. “The forestry sector does not…
Robert Brooks has burnt wood to heat his home in Mt. William for 13 years now, but has never had such a hard time getting a load of full-length wood as he has this year. Ordinarily he gets it in April so it’s good and dry. This year he called one person and was told…
It’s another weekend, another 120 new fires for British Columbia – bringing the total number of active blazes in the province to 250. An estimated total of 283,430 hectares have burned across the province since April, according to BC Wildfire Services – an area nearly the size of Metro Vancouver. Cooler temperatures and wetter weather…
A UBC Forestry expert says BC’s Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic may be partly to blame for the tough wildfire season. Speaking on the Jill Bennett Show, Lori Daniels says the infestation helped create the perfect conditions for intense fires. “Some of the forest fires we see burning up in the Cariboo, and up in the…
Resolute Forest Products Inc. and the two other forestry companies working in Quebec’s North Shore region say the entire industry there will soon disappear if the provincial government doesn’t increase subsidies to reflect the higher cost of producing in the area. On Monday, Resolute, Arbec Forest Products and Boisaco removed their equipment from logging areas…
The last remaining Martin Mars water bomber is “coming out of retirement” to fight the wildfires burning up B.C. this summer, Forests Minster Steve Thomson has confirmed. About 195 fires are currently burning across the province, with dozens more fires popping up each day. “Given the extraordinary fire situation this year, and recognizing that public…
Where we’ve come and where we’re going by David Lindsay, President & CEO, Forest Products Association of Canada speaking at the Canadian Conference of Forest Ministers in Thunder Bay on July 10, 2015 Minister thank you for that introduction and good morning to all. I am very pleased to be here on behalf of the Forest Products Association of Canada….
You don’t need a PhD in geochemistry to know that fire and ice don’t play nice together. You do, however, need a degree or two to figure out what the hell that means for Alaska — the icy wonderland currently being engulfed by wildfires. It would be especially nice to know what all that fire is doing to the…