by Working Forest | Dec 16, 2016 | Archives
It’s been more than two months since Tolko Industries announced they’d be shutting down production at the Merritt mill and tomorrow is the day workers will be sent packing. The union representing those employees, United Steelworkers, says it is...
by Working Forest | Dec 16, 2016 | Archives
No one cares more about Nova Scotia’s forest than the 6,100 forest industry professionals who make their living taking care of it. Our forests are a dynamic and renewable resource. We harvest our forests and they grow back, often healthier and more productive than...
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...
