by Working Forest | Jan 18, 2016 | Archives
The Cariboo Chilcotin Beetle Action Coalition (CCBAC) board is planning a new strategic direction, focusing on support for economic development in the region. “CCBAC is turning a page,” said Quesnel Mayor Bob Simpson who is chair of the board in a press...
by Working Forest | Jan 18, 2016 | Archives
If timing is everything, then there’s definitely a worse time to be in the lumber business. Just ask Frank Dottori. When the veteran forestry executive was working on resurrecting White River’s idle lumber mill about three years ago, few would have predicted just how...
by Working Forest | Jan 18, 2016 | Archives
There is a meme floating around Canadian policy circles that if the job losses that are currently occurring in the oil and gas industry were happening anywhere else in Canada, we would see a bailout. Like many memes, it is difficult to precisely identify its origins....
by Working Forest | Jan 14, 2016 | Archives
With the Canadian dollar hovering below $0.70 U.S., Canada’s forestry industry is getting some much needed help, but storm clouds could be on the way. The Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement, which kept trade peace between the two countries, expired last October,...
by Working Forest | Jan 14, 2016 | Archives
In September 2008, when thousands of riled-up Republicans filed into the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn., for the party’s national convention, the upcoming election wasn’t the only thing on their minds. Oil had soared to US$145 a barrel just months earlier,...
by Working Forest | Jan 14, 2016 | Archives
Avatar, the future-fantasy blockbuster that beat Titanic as all-time Hollywood box office champ, has finally been unseated by the latest Star Wars space opera. I watched Avatar on TV over the holidays for the first time since its 2009 release, and was able to see past...
