by Working Forest | Oct 17, 2016 | Archives
The Takla First Nation is taking B.C. Timber Sales to court, alleging the band was not property consulted before it gave a Vanderhoof-based logging contractor the go-ahead to carry out operations on its traditional territory. According to a petition filed Monday in...
by Working Forest | Oct 17, 2016 | Archives
The infrastructure wish lists of post-secondary institutions in Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie are being fulfilled after the federal and provincial governments went on a funding tear. Confederation College and a First Nations training institute received a combined...
by Working Forest | Oct 17, 2016 | Archives
This week, the legal safety net was removed from the Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement, but it is mostly business as usual so far for area lumber production. The trade pact ran past its actual due date more than a year ago, but there was a one-year provisional...
by Working Forest | Oct 17, 2016 | Archives
B.C.’s forest products industry may not have the economic heft it had 25 years ago, but it remains the lifeblood of many small communities in the Interior and on the North Coast. So the expiry on Wednesday of a standstill agreement that had effectively extended the...
by Working Forest | Oct 17, 2016 | Archives
The provincial government has identified a potential buyer for the Tolko Industries kraft paper mill in The Pas and approved a new regulation aimed at helping secure the deal. Tolko announced in August it planned to close the mill by Dec. 2, throwing more than 300...
by Working Forest | Oct 17, 2016 | Archives
The government of Manitoba has approved a regulation at the request of both Tolko Industries and a potential purchaser of the kraft paper mill in The Pas, Premier Brian Palliser said on Friday. Tolko Industries, the largest employer in The Pas, announced in August...
