Activists considering blockade

An Atikameksheng Anishnawbek band member who says burial grounds and his family’s traditional hunting territory are being jeopardized by logging in the Benny Forest west of Sudbury isn’t giving up his effort to stop cutting and aerial spraying in the area....

Wonders of wood

The building has a name that has to be lived up to, and Emily Carr University is already well on its way to being the innovators of wood design called for in that title. The Vancouver-based university is moving in and setting up its engineering programs that will...

Good to burn wood

Generating stations in both Atikokan and Thunder Bay are waving the environmental flag for being leaders in sustaining healthy forests while using its byproducts to produce renewable bioenergy. Wednesday was National Bioenergy Day across North America and Ontario...

BCTS postpones logging on Reed Road cutblock

BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has postponed logging operations at its Reed Road cutblock while it considers options. Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) hailed this as a victory earlier this month. “BCTS has deferred or postponed the Reed Road [Timber Sale Licence] – it has not...