by Working Forest | Jan 11, 2017 | Archives
It’s déjà vu all over again in Middle Musquodoboit as former wood pellet plant operator Scotia Atlantic Biomass Company’s assets go up for grabs. The Vancouver-based Viridis Energy subsidiary is in receivership. “There are booms and busts and sometimes the weak don’t...
by Working Forest | Jan 11, 2017 | Archives
A judge has handed down significant fines and bans for destructive logging on Haida Gwaii earlier this decade. Gwaii Wood Products Ltd., Howe Sound Forest Products Ltd., and I. Crosby Contracting Ltd. were taken to court by the federal government over allegations of...
by Working Forest | Jan 10, 2017 | Archives
On a country back road near Penobsquis, an experiment is underway that its supporters hope will point the way to a market-driven, low-carbon economic boom for New Brunswick. A non-profit organization called Community Forests International bought more than 285 hectares...
by Working Forest | Jan 10, 2017 | Archive Articles, Articles
The lily leaf beetle, with its shiny scarlet back, “is a cute little beetle,” admits Barry Hicks, who established the Applied Entomology Lab at the College of the North Atlantic (CNA) in 2008. But it’s a ravenous bugger, too. If your garden is full of lilies, “they...
by Working Forest | Jan 10, 2017 | Archives
Designed by Vancouver-based Michael Green Architecture (MGA) in conjunction with architect-of-record DLR Group, the seven storey office building in Minneapolis’ North Loop neighbourhood is the largest mass timber building in the United States. When developer...
