by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
In a last-minute decision, the Environmental and Social Impact Review Committee (COMEX) has agreed to postpone the public hearing on the construction of forest access roads that would impact the Broadback Forest, one of the last remaining wilderness areas in...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Employees, elected representatives, community leaders joined company executives today at the Domtar pulp mill in Kamloops to mark the mill’s 50(th) year of operations. The operation began in 1965, when a new and innovative concept for utilizing waste materials...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
What a great day to celebrate history! Sixty years ago, the Ketchum brothers started West Fraser Mills. On Nov. 28, 1955, the temperature in Quesnel was a cloudy and foggy -1 C. Chetwynd, known then as Little Prairie, was just starting to set down its roots....
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
John Williams wants to diversify Domtar Corp. from the declining business of making paper, but not too far. Williams, who is based in Fort Mill along with 500 employees of Domtar’s pulp and paper division, wants to move the Montreal-based company toward the...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
Premier Christy Clark is impressive talking the talk on the international stage. At the Paris summit she’s been poised and persuasive pumping up British Columbia — and her government, of course — as climate leaders. That’s on the basis of undeniable success in curbing...
