It makes sense that the material we have in greatest abundance on the West Coast — wood — is also the most preferred by local furniture designers. “It’s alive, it’s in its true form, it’s just such a beautiful material and it’s so versatile,” says Romney Shipway of Vancouver’s Shipway Design, who designed the new…
Green Party Leader David Coon has failed in a bid to cancel the wood supply contracts between the provincial government and several forestry companies. Green Party Leader David Coon described Wednesday, the day his bill was defeated, as a sad day for New Brunswick forests. (CBC) Liberal and Progressive Conservative members joined forces on Wednesday…
After 25 years as a lumber grader and several attempts at the championship, Tolko Industries’ Rachhpal Sahota captured the title of B.C.’s Top Lumber Grader for 2015. “I finally got it,” a happy Sahota said Thursday, holding a framed certificate of the win. “It feels good.” Sahota beat out close to 30 of the top…
Today, NDP forestry critic Gilles Bisson blasted the forestry minister for allowing wood cut in Ontario forests to be shipped to Quebec over Ontario mills that need it. “Minister, you will know of Little John Enterprises in Timmins a second-generation sawmill that’s been operating in Timmins for a number of years. They have come to…
Alaska Airlines says it will fly a demonstration flight next year using 1,000 gallons of a biofuel made from wood waste in Northwest forests. The jet biofuel is being developed by the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance using tree branches left after a timber harvests. The five-year project is being supported by the U.S….
Catalyst Paper (TSX:CYT) today announced that it has been named for the ninth consecutive year as one of the Best 50 Canadian Corporate Citizens by Corporate Knights, “the magazine for clean capitalism”, which reports on corporate sustainability and transparency and produces numerous indices, including Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens. “We are proud to be recognized for…
Along with the Ontario Forest Industry Association and its counterpart in Quebec the Quebec Forest Industry Council, the group held a press conference at Parliament Hill and then a series of meetings with federal ministries on the issues at hand (namely eco-terrorism). The mayors are pushing back against campaigns by groups like Greenpeace (which they…
The Little Bobtail Lake forest fire has been completely contained and its is now perimeter completely extinguished, but smoke from the fire will remain visible for the rest of the summer, the province’s wildfire management branch said Wednesday. “Starting next week crews will no longer remain on scene daily but will return to the fire…
The most destructive pest to North America’s mature pine forests, the mountain pine beetle, is threatening the next generation. A study conducted by a University of Alberta researcher shows that the pine beetle not only kills adult trees, but can also leave the next generation of pine vulnerable. “The next pine forest is at risk,”…
Much of our furniture is made from timber. The wood to make that furniture has to be harvested from a felled tree which is then milled, sawed, planed, sanded, put back together with glue and screws, and finished. Wouldn’t it be easier to avoid most of these steps and simply coax a tree to grow…