by Working Forest | Jan 28, 2020 | Archives
Ontario’s government is supporting business expansions and startups in Northeastern Ontario by investing in four projects, creating 18 jobs. Parliamentary Assistant Dave Smith, on behalf of Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, was...
by Working Forest | Jan 28, 2020 | Archives
Researchers from Canada and the United States want to de-escalate the devastating forest wildfires that are increasingly occurring due to climate change while strengthening the development of a forest-based bioeconomy in British Columbia (BC), boosting carbon uptake...
by Working Forest | Jan 28, 2020 | Archives
CBC NEWS — Forestry contractors who need money to try to weather losses from the Northern Pulp shutdown are being offered up to $180,000 in short-term loans. It is an effort to tide them over while they search for new buyers for their wood. Jeff Bishop,...
by Working Forest | Jan 27, 2020 | Archives
We regret to announce that Biomass North Development Centre has ceased operations. It has been a challenging and rewarding five years, and we are proud of the role we have played in the emerging bioeconomy. We’ve brokered meaningful partnerships through B2B activities...
by Working Forest | Jan 27, 2020 | Archives
Last June, Sidewalk Labs announced a plan to design the world’s first all-timber high-rise neighbourhood, located on Toronto’s eastern waterfront. Of course, building with timber is not a new idea — people have been doing it since at least the Neolithic Age. Yet...
