by Working Forest | Jul 15, 2015 | Archives
While northern Saskatchewan forest fires rage, SaskPower is struggling to keep up with the damage being done to its infrastructure. Last week, employees worked to restore 42 poles on the line to Pinehouse, Sask., that had been burned by fast-moving fires. The power...
by Working Forest | Jul 15, 2015 | Archives
Forest fires raging in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia are taxing assets in those provinces and requiring firefighters, planes and equipment from across the country to head west in significant numbers. Fire agency managers in those provinces – and to a...
by Working Forest | Jul 15, 2015 | Archives
A Northern Engineered Wood Products (NEWPRO) particleboard facility is filing a permit amendment to become a wood pellet manufacturing plant. Particleboard production has been halted at the Smithers, BC, plant since January 2014. Although not typically required when...
by Working Forest | Jul 14, 2015 | Archives
A trend whereby B.C. forestry companies have been snapping up sawmills south of the border while shuttering plants here is likely to continue. That prediction, from a new Conference Board report, is part of a good news/bad news story about a sector contributing $12...
by Working Forest | Jul 14, 2015 | Archives
Anyone who knows Northern Ontario knows that forestry is king. We supply enormous amounts of wood, pulp, paper and a growing array of other products to the world made from the trees that comprise the vast boreal forest. Forestry took a big hit in the last recession...
