by Working Forest | Jun 2, 2015 | Archives
The manager of a wood pellet plant on the Northern Peninsula says a 2014 government loan was necessary even though the plant didn’t operate. Holson Forest Products owns the Roddickton plant, which was built in 2011 and was supposed to provide jobs for residents...
by Working Forest | Jun 2, 2015 | Archives
May was a record month for wildfires in Yukon, says Yukon Wildland Fire Management Information officer George Maratos. “We had 17 new starts since Friday with three yesterday,” says Maratos. “That brings our total to a historic high of 93 fires in...
by Working Forest | Jun 1, 2015 | Archives
There won’t be a new land-use plan or a moratorium on logging on Mount Macpherson, says Steve Thomson, the Minister of Forests, Land and Natural Resource Operations. I spoke to Thomson Monday morning after reading his response to a request by the Columbia...
by Working Forest | Jun 1, 2015 | Archives
Ever heard of a battery made of wood pulp? Here is one, developed by researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and Stanford University, US. Using nanocellulose broken down from tree fibres, the researchers produced an elastic, foam-like battery...
by Working Forest | Jun 1, 2015 | Archives
Company says not locked into anything, still chasing full pellet production While the political storm continued around them this week, Todd May, general manager responsible for the pellet division at Holson Forest Products in Roddickton, said the company is still...
