by Working Forest | Dec 16, 2016 | Archives
A federal tribunal has ruled a Vancouver Island First Nation should get more than $13.8 million in compensation for government failure to ensure it was properly compensated for two decades of timber harvesting. On Monday, the Canadian Specific Claims Tribunal awarded...
by Working Forest | Dec 12, 2016 | Archives
If there is one certainty about the future of the B.C. forest industry, it is the growing participation of indigenous people whose traditional territories take in most of the Crown land in the province. Aboriginal leaders assumed responsibility for ecosystem-based...
by Working Forest | Dec 12, 2016 | Archives
The 203 employees of Merritt’s Tolko sawmill report for their last week at the mill Monday. The workers ran the last logs through the mill last week and now are shutting down the site. The mill closes this Friday, with no reopening scheduled. Some employees have...
by Working Forest | Dec 12, 2016 | Archives
The Northern Ontario Bioeconomy Strategy is moving forward, after the federal and provincial governments awarded funding to biomass proponents. The governments jointly awarded $216,792 — matching contributions of $108,396 — to the Biomass North Development Centre and...
by Working Forest | Dec 12, 2016 | Archives
Companies around the world are working to produce nanocellulose in commercial quantities, paving the way to a vast array of products based on materials derived from trees, as they attempt to end our dependence on petrochemicals. “I think it will give us the...
