by Working Forest | Jan 6, 2016 | Archives
The value of homes in communities dependent on resource extraction has taken a beating in 2015, the sour note in a general rise of residential real estate assessments. A long slide in copper and coal prices has led to layoffs and mine closures in mining towns such as...
by Working Forest | Jan 6, 2016 | Archives
Some time in the new year, the new federal Liberal government will begin consulting Canadians on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a 12-nation trade agreement that is supported by the B.C. forest industry. It will also have to try to fill the vacuum that the...
by Working Forest | Jan 6, 2016 | Archives
Now the Quebec government is calling for the Forest Council to back down Slowly but surely, multinational environmental enforcer Greenpeace is being dragged kicking and screaming to court to answer for its job-destroying misinformation campaigns in the name of...
by Working Forest | Jan 6, 2016 | Archives
Nearly lost in the noise of last year’s federal election was the finalization of the historic Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The TPP is a sweeping trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim countries including Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia, Vietnam and...
by Working Forest | Jan 5, 2016 | Archives
Logging company Teal Cedar Products has been granted an extension of an injunction that will keep environmental activists at bay as the company continues to log in the Walbran Valley. In a decision delivered Monday, the B.C. Supreme Court ordered that until the end of...
