by Working Forest | Jul 23, 2015 | Archives
There were three new fires the evening of July 21 in the Northeast Region including two in the Sudbury District and one in the Bancroft District. Sudbury 35 was a 0.1 hectare fire, located about 39 kilometers west southwest of Sudbury. It was responded to by the...
by Working Forest | Jul 23, 2015 | Archives
With the cost of fighting B.C.’s forest fires soaring to more than $140 million already this year, Premier Christy Clark acknowledged the province could end up spending as much as $400 million by the end of the season. On Wednesday morning, Clark visited the area of...
by Working Forest | Jul 23, 2015 | Archives
In just 24 hours, 115 new wildfires have flared up across B.C. — most of them in the Kamloops area and the southeast part of the province. “Lightning was a huge driver of increased fire activity yesterday and that would be from the lightning activity we saw...
by Working Forest | Jul 22, 2015 | Archives
Two weeks ago, Todd Paglia, executive director of U.S.-based radical environmental organization ForestEthics, sent a letter of warning to Richard Garneau, CEO of Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products. Paglia declared that he was effectively banishing Resolute, a...
by Working Forest | Jul 22, 2015 | Archives
There were a few months early in 2015 when the U.S. housing market didn’t look so great. That dragged down a wide range of stocks, but the data has picked up since then, making housing an attractive opportunity for investors seeking value in the U.S. equity market....
