by Working Forest | Mar 7, 2019 | Archives
Richmond, B.C. — WorkSafeBC has announced that its 2019 high-risk strategy for forestry will include an additional focus on phase congestion, which can lead to unsafe conditions when harvesting activities overlap. Phase congestion is an industry-wide problem and has...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2019 | Archives
CHARLOTTETOWN — The Canadian Press — Justin Trudeau says his government is concerned with plans by a pulp mill in northern Nova Scotia to dump treated effluent into the Northumberland Strait, but the prime minister says there are no plans for a federal...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2019 | Archives
VANCOUVER — Inspired architecture and innovative structural engineering using wood in a remarkable diversity of building types, sizes and purposes were in the spotlight at the 15th annual 2019 Wood Design Awards in BC, sponsored by Wood WORKS! BC. More than 400...
by Working Forest | Mar 5, 2019 | Archives
Toronto – – The East-West Ring of Fire Road Coalition (EWRFC) is a new organization at the world’s largest mining conference, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference (#PDAC2019) advocating for an “East-West road” to access the Ring...
by Working Forest | Mar 5, 2019 | Archives
Eighteen new residents have moved into the rural community of Chipman, New Brunswick and a new subdivision is being built to accommodate newcomers. In the coming years, dozens more are expected to be added to the village’s current population of roughly 1000....