by Working Forest | Jun 5, 2015 | Archives
After 25 years as a lumber grader and several attempts at the championship, Tolko Industries’ Rachhpal Sahota captured the title of B.C.’s Top Lumber Grader for 2015. “I finally got it,” a happy Sahota said Thursday, holding a framed certificate of the win. “It feels...
by Working Forest | Jun 4, 2015 | Archives
Today, NDP forestry critic Gilles Bisson blasted the forestry minister for allowing wood cut in Ontario forests to be shipped to Quebec over Ontario mills that need it. “Minister, you will know of Little John Enterprises in Timmins a second-generation sawmill that’s...
by Working Forest | Jun 4, 2015 | Archives
Alaska Airlines says it will fly a demonstration flight next year using 1,000 gallons of a biofuel made from wood waste in Northwest forests. The jet biofuel is being developed by the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance using tree...
by Working Forest | Jun 4, 2015 | Archives
Catalyst Paper (TSX:CYT) today announced that it has been named for the ninth consecutive year as one of the Best 50 Canadian Corporate Citizens by Corporate Knights, “the magazine for clean capitalism”, which reports on corporate sustainability and...
by Working Forest | Jun 4, 2015 | Archives
Along with the Ontario Forest Industry Association and its counterpart in Quebec the Quebec Forest Industry Council, the group held a press conference at Parliament Hill and then a series of meetings with federal ministries on the issues at hand (namely...
