by Working Forest | Oct 27, 2015 | Archives
The Canadian forestry industry said on Monday it is seeking a simple roll-over of an expired 2006 softwood lumber export agreement with the United States in hopes of preventing a fresh trade fight over the product. Canada and the United States have a long history of...
by Working Forest | Oct 27, 2015 | Archives
EACOM Timber Corporation is spending $2.8 million on increased automation at its Timmins sawmill. The company is putting in place a new lumber grading dystem, which will determine the grade of each piece of lumber faster and more accurately than human workers. “The...
by Working Forest | Oct 26, 2015 | Archives
Justin Trudeau is barely off the campaign bus and he’s already facing his first major trade showdown with the United States. And it’s not over the Keystone XL pipeline, the Trans-Pacific Partnership or climate-change policy. The prime-minister-designate is about to...
by Working Forest | Oct 26, 2015 | Archives
Premier Christy Clark said her first conversation with Canada’s prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau was about the softwood-lumber agreement. “We want to see the agreement renewed,” she told the Merritt Herald at one of her stops in Merritt on Friday. The premier...
by Working Forest | Oct 26, 2015 | Archives
British Columbia’s government has been meeting with the forest industry to develop plans to save endangered caribou, and the province appears to have launched its controversial wolf cull program to avoid putting further restrictions on logging. The wolf kill, which...
