by Working Forest | Feb 22, 2017 | Archives
A California company is entertaining buyers for its Wawa pellet mill as it begins shuttering the operation this month. Rentech announced Feb. 21 that its Wawa pellet mill is being indefinitely idled while the company conducts a “strategic review” of that facility and...
by Working Forest | Feb 21, 2017 | Archives
The B.C. government announced $150 million in spending Friday February 17 to “treat” forests to reduce wildfire hazards, rehabilitate forests damaged by fire and disease and increase B.C.’s carbon sink. While that treatment will include tree planting, it will also...
by Working Forest | Feb 21, 2017 | Archives
Premier Brian Gallant says his government will reveal “in the next few weeks” whether it will make changes to the controversial forestry plan put in place by the previous Progressive Conservative government in 2014. The plan gave forestry companies...
by Working Forest | Feb 21, 2017 | Archives
Botwood is one step closer to an economic boost that the mayor hopes could bring financial stability to the central Newfoundland town and neighbouring communities for decades to come. The Newfoundland and Labrador government has signed an agreement in principle with...
by Working Forest | Feb 21, 2017 | Archives
B.C.’s newly appointed envoy to the softwood lumber wars lost no time Thursday setting out what the long-running dispute with the United States is — and is not — all about. “It has never been an issue driven out of the president’s office, “ David Emerson told...
