by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
As Resolute Forest Products was releasing the results of its fourth quarter and 2015 operations, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was criticizing the company’s alleged “unwillingness” to be involved in mediation efforts to resolve its suspended Canadian FSC...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
As public relations coups go, it doesn’t get better than the deal finalized last week by the B.C. government, industry, environmentalists and First Nations to protect all but 15 per cent of the Great Bear Rainforest from commercial logging. Years in the making, it’s...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
Jacqui Beban is used to being the only woman in the room. Practically since birth, she has been exposed to the male-dominated and macho logging business. And last month she became the first female president in the 73-year history of the organization that speaks for...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
There’s a new group in Ontario looking out for the interests of the agriculture and forestry sectors. Initiated by the Grain Farmers of Ontario, the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM), the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association and stakeholders...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
B.C. Premier Christy Clark is expressing hope the Trudeau government can overcome U.S. resistance and renew a softwood lumber deal that brought peace to Canada-U.S. trade relations a decade ago. “The last time … relations around softwood lumber went sideways,...
