by Working Forest | Nov 6, 2015 | Archives
Quesnel City Council is lobbying B.C. Premier Christy Clark on behalf of the community’s forest sector. Council approved Mayor Bob Simpson’s letter to the premier this week in support of an 18 month old request by West Fraser for PST relief for Quesnel River Pulp and...
by Working Forest | Nov 6, 2015 | Archives
Tree harvesting will begin next week as part of the forest management plan at Crescent Lake. Town Councilor Dawn Miceli said planning took several years but the first phase is ready to begin. The UCONN College of Agriculture and Natural Resources developed the plan....
by Working Forest | Nov 6, 2015 | Archives
A group of mills is about to get access to a large area of forested Crown land in Queens, Shelburne, Digby and Yarmouth counties. The parcel is 566,600 hectares — roughly the same size as Prince Edward Island — and basically represents all the Crown land west...
by Working Forest | Nov 6, 2015 | Archives
Canada has signed almost two dozen side letters with its trading partners in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, including an agreement with the United States to combat illicit trade. Canada also signed a side agreement with Japan that appears to protect the exports of...
by Working Forest | Nov 6, 2015 | Archives
Many Nova Scotians imagine the mill owner’s profits are pretty good, since it is assumed the maker of supercalendered paper can remain profitable and still pay millions of dollars in trade penalties to the United States government. The U.S. Department of Commerce has...
