The provincial representative at H.C. Haynes Ltd. reminded woodland owners that although U.S. housing starts have been good recently, lumber prices don’t always mirror housing starts. In fact, the price of lumber has declined recently and he expected it would go down another $5 a tonne within the next month. The price for Oriented Stand…
The U.S. government is investigating whether to impose trade sanctions on paper exports from the Maritimes because of industrial subsidies that producers receive from the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia governments. The U.S. International Trade Commission said in a preliminary ruling in April that American paper manufacturers have been hurt by the low price of…
Port Alberni Mayor Mike Ruttan says the amount of raw logs leaving his city’s port is growing exponentially and he wants some answers. He adds one in seven raw logs leaving Canada is leaving from Port Alberni. “We get concerned because we think potentially those are jobs, potentially that’s income for the Province, income for…
Kenora Mayor Dave Canfield says it’s time the provincial and federal governments fought back against environmental groups opposed to forestry practices in northern Ontario and Quebec. Canfield, who heads the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association, on Wednesday said groups like Greenpeace are damaging the regional economy, and without any basis in fact. He added forestry standards…
Frustrated by what they see as skewed news coverage of biomass, a coalition of forest industry groups is attacking media outlets, charging that reporters are giving free rein to environmentalists’ critiques of wood-fired power generation while ignoring evidence that the cultivation, harvest and burning of trees and wood waste to generate electricity does not exacerbate…
Only this goat stampede can prevent forest fires in California. Hundreds of the animals were filmed being released into the Berkeley Hills on Friday, reports KGO. They brought traffic to a standstill and kicked up clouds of dust as they scampered down a slope and along a road. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory said it rented…
High-rise buildings constructed from wood are having a bit of a moment. And that begs an important question: could the Empire State Building, the quintessential skyscraper, be built using wood? Finnish forestry company Metsä Wood teamed up with Canadian architect Michael Green to tackle that question, as part of Metsa’s Plan B project. The final…
BC Hydro executive vice-president Susan Yurkovich will become the new president and chief executive officer of the Council of Forest Industries on Sept. 14, COFI announced today. Yurkovich will replace James Gorman, who has accepted a new position as vice-president of Vancouver-based wood products company West Fraser. Gorman joined COFI in September 2013 after previously…
Canadian softwood lumber prices have fallen substantially in the past nine months, but that long, steady decline should end soon, according to industry analyst Hakan Ekstrom. The president of Seattle-based Wood Resources International said early signs of a resurgent U.S. housing market should boost the demand for Canadian wood. “We probably reached the bottom on…
On the occasion of the re-start of Paper Excellence’s Chetwynd pulp mill, the media-shy company opened up a bit in an interview with Business in Vancouver. The company’s deputy CEO, Pedro Chang, said the company is in Canada for the long haul. “Many pulp manufacturers look at the pulp industry [to be in] sunset,” Chang…