by Working Forest | Dec 14, 2015 | Archives
Woodfibre LNG hopes to cut the cost of its proposed $1.8-billion liquefied natural gas project near Squamish to offset a drop in prices for natural gas in China. That would allow the export facility to remain as a leading contender for the first proposed LNG project...
by Working Forest | Dec 14, 2015 | Archives
After a year of contracting employment, Northeastern Ontario will slowly begin to find its economic footing in 2016, though progress will lag behind much of the rest of the province, according to a new report released today by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the...
by Working Forest | Dec 14, 2015 | Archives
Seven years ago, workers at the Harmac pulp mill near Nanaimo defied the odds and hung onto their jobs at a time when so many of their counterparts at other mills in British Columbia were losing theirs. Each worker scraped together $25,000 and three local investment...
by Working Forest | Dec 14, 2015 | Archives
Designed to reduce the high number of serious accidents in the forestry industry, the technology will be demonstrated to North American companies at a conference in March. The machines have already reduced accidents, conference organiser John Stulen of Innovatek said....
by Working Forest | Dec 14, 2015 | Archives
A Nova Scotia company says it’s the first in the world to create biofuel completely out of a forestry product. Cellufuel moved into the former Bowater Mersey paper plant in Brooklyn, N.S., after the plant closed in 2012, throwing around 2,000 people out of work....
