by Working Forest | Oct 26, 2015 | Archives
Port Hawkesbury Paper may have to jump through an extra hoop if it wants to buy renewable power from an independent producer under the province’s new retail electricity system. The Point Tupper mill can’t be a customer in the retail market for the next four years...
by Working Forest | Oct 26, 2015 | Archives
BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has postponed logging operations at its Reed Road cutblock while it considers options. Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) hailed this as a victory earlier this month. “BCTS has deferred or postponed the Reed Road [Timber Sale Licence] – it has not...
by Working Forest | Oct 26, 2015 | Archives
In 1999, residents of the Upper Clearwater Valley and the local forest district agreed that the corridor of private and public land surrounding the road leading to Wells Gray Provincial Park had unique values. The values were documented in guidelines in a local...
by Working Forest | Oct 26, 2015 | Archives
Kalesnikoff Lumber has given the public until Nov. 1 to comment on its new forest stewardship plan for its licences in the Arrow Lakes and Kootenay Lake areas. The five year plan was first made public in August, and Tyler Hodgkinson, the company’s woodlands manager,...
by Working Forest | Oct 23, 2015 | Archives
It’s not just for show, you can actually take it for a spin. CBC Daybreak Kamloops got the first sneak peak into a car made out of a single piece of western red cedar. It’s all hush-hush until the big launch of it later this year. “It has a lot of...
by Working Forest | Oct 23, 2015 | Archives
The City of Montreal will spend $3.5 million to acquire a 78,500-square metre expanse of land in the West Island and add it to the protected l’Anse-à-l’Orme nature park. The property at 575 Elm Avenue in Beaconsfield is part of the Angell Woods forest. The...
