by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
Mill claims it had deal with firm to design, install pollution control systemNorthern Pulp is suing a company it alleges walked away from a contract to design and install an air pollution control system, a move the Pictou County mill claims caused the cost of the work...
by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
Vermont officials say the state’s increasing forestry are due to the decline of the paper mill industry in Maine. Michael Snyder, commissioner of Vermont’s Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation, says that a significant market for the state’s wood is in jeopardy....
by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
It sounds a bit contradictory to call the province’s recent forestry trade mission to Japan and China a success when British Columbia’s lumber shipments into the region are on the slide. For industry officials, however, the trip at the end of November was about...
by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
Jim Stanford is an adviser to Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union, and Harold Innis Industry Professor of Economics at McMaster University in Hamilton. By any definition, 2015 was a lousy year for Canada’s economy, complete with a technical recession,...
by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
Government subsidies for the Cape Breton paper mill have embroiled the province in another trade dispute. A previous dispute that came to a head in December led to hefty duties on U.S. imports of supercalendered paper from Canadian mills. In that case, complaints of...
