by Working Forest | Mar 16, 2015 | Archives
One chilly morning in October 2013, Diana Six parked her white Subaru at the edge of a pine forest in southwestern Montana’s Big Hole Valley. Beneath snow-tipped peaks, lodgepole pines in four different colors draped the hillside—a time line of carnage. The gray ones,...
by Working Forest | Mar 13, 2015 | Archives
A fire has destroyed the Kruger Inc. recycling plant in Beauharnois. The fire broke out at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and produced a thick plume of smoke that could be seen several kilometres away. The local fire department appealed to neighbouring municipalities for...
by Working Forest | Mar 13, 2015 | Archives
A recent (2014) and very detailed report provides the current status of forest biomass policy in Canada. According to the authors, B.C.’s harvest in 2009 was about 48 million cubic metres and covered an area of 122,620 hectares. It was estimated that we had the...
by Working Forest | Mar 13, 2015 | Archives
An annual major maintenance shutdown at Zellstoff Celgar will start Saturday at 6:30 p.m. According to a statement issued by the pulp mill, the critical job for this shutdown is the inspection and repair of the recovery boiler, which recovers spent cooking liquor and...
by Working Forest | Mar 12, 2015 | Archives
It was a trip to the washroom that likely saved his life. Wayne Cleghorn went to the basement washroom moments before the April 23, 2012 explosion and fire that destroyed Lakeland Mills’ sawmill, killing Glenn Roche and Alan Little and injuring 22 others. “It’s very...
