by Working Forest | Jul 23, 2015 | Archives
A 50 per cent reduction in the value of the Resolute Forest Products mill in Thunder Bay will cost the city millions of dollars. Earlier this month, the Assessment Review Board handed down a decision that slashes the property value by almost $40 million, for the 2009...
by Working Forest | Jul 23, 2015 | Archives
As Alberta moves into an era of uncertainly thanks to low oil prices and a new government intent on ensuring “social justice,” the once have-not province immediately to its east faces an entirely different future – and according to one industry expert, the government...
by Working Forest | Jul 23, 2015 | Archives
J.D. Irving Ltd., and a number of community groups have issued a legal warning in a bid to stop the closure and possible dismantling of the Saint-Léonard airport in northwestern New Brunswick. The cease-and-desist letter, addressed to the City of Edmundston and the...
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...
