by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
Erickson Incorporated, a leading global provider of aviation services, has renewed a longstanding contract for aerial timber harvesting with Vancouver-based Western Forest Products (WFP), one of the largest lumber producers in Canada. This is Erickson’s second timber...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
According to information obtained by the Teamsters Union, the re-opening of the Norbord plant in Val-d’Or is in jeopardy as the result of a decision by the ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec. The fact is that in December, the ministry...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
A year of discussions have culminated in a Biigtigong Nishnaabeg (Pic River First Nation) company becoming a “significant” fibre supplier to the AV Birla Terrace Bay Mill. Mkwa Timber will harvest wood from the Pic River Forest and transport it to the mill...
by Working Forest | Feb 4, 2016 | Archives
Parliamentary Secretary Kim Rudd, on behalf of the Honourable Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, today met with forest sector stakeholders and highlighted the Government’s support for growing and developing markets for Canada’s sustainably produced,...
by Working Forest | Feb 4, 2016 | Archives
It has been 20 years in the making. Now an agreement has been reached among environmentalists, aboriginal groups, logging companies, and the government, to protect a massive area of British Columbia’s coastal rainforest. Valerie Langer, director of forest conservation...
by Working Forest | Feb 4, 2016 | Archives
A group of African refugee tree planters who were found living in miserable conditions at a camp near Golden were award their EI payments after more than five years in court. According to the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC), who represented the tree...
