Muskrat Falls contractor pursuing suit after being thrown off megaproject Great Western Forestry disputes Nalcor Energy’s claim its work on the Muskrat Falls (Newfoundland & Labrador) project was not up to snuff. The contractor — once tasked with clearing trees from a transmission line right of way between Muskrat Falls and Churchill Falls — is pressing a…
Emergency crews were called to a logging accident just after 8 a.m. Wednesday morning. Three loggers were hit by a tree near the Monashee Pass forestry road, east of Cherryville. “It was a logging incident. They were actually actively logging and one of the logs struck the three people on the line,” says RCMP Sgt….
The genome of the mountain pine beetle – the insect that has devastated B.C.’s lodgepole pine forests – has been decoded by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. This is a first for the mountain pine beetle and only the second beetle genome ever sequenced. The first…
Calvin Archibald, Next Generation Forest Management Ltd. is based in Pictou County currently working for Northern Pulp. This will provide some recent history, summarize contribution to the Nova Scotia economy and voice concern about the future of our industry. In particular it will address risks inherent in the current impasse over the Industrial Approval Permit…
Funding announcements, the future of fibre and an informative discussion on Aboriginal land title highlighted the final day of the Council of Forest Industries’ (COFI) 2015 annual conference, which took place on April 8 and 9 in Prince George, B.C. Approximately 500 people packed into the auditoriums at the Prince George Civic Centre to listen…
Although risk, as well as investment sources, are important issues for the wood bio-products industry, the longterm outlook and possibilities are bright. That was the message conveyed at the COFI Convention session on this emerging industry, which encompasses a wide variety of wood-derived products, including materials, fuels, chemicals, resins and even sugar-based foods. Trevor Stuthridge,…
Two American pulp and paper mill owners are charging ahead in their quest to have tariffs placed on supercalendered paper entering the U.S. from Port Hawkesbury Paper Corp. In a preliminary injury inquiry on Friday, American trade commission voted to refer the case to the department of commerce for further investigation. Lead by American supercalendered…
The Environment Department has received three appeals to the 2015 industrial approval for the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County. Thursday marked the deadline to file an appeal. Appeals were submitted by the Pictou Landing First Nation, a community group called Clean the Pictou Air and Northern Pulp. Environment Minister Randy Delorey, who said he…
The forestry industry has been credited as one of the bright spots during this financial downturn, especially in Alberta and economic developers want to know how. The Alberta Association of Economic Developers is holding its 2015 AGM in Kananaskis this week and one of the presentations is from the Forest Products Association of Canada. There…
A call for change was the message at the Council of Forest Industries convention this morning. The relationship between sawmill operations and the newest addition to forestry: bioenergy, was the focus of this morning’s panel at the convention. Everyone agrees, there will be a reduction in the Annual Allowable Cut is on the horizon now…