by Working Forest | Sep 11, 2015 | Archives
Canfor Corp.’s Canal Flats sawmill in the east Kootenays has become the latest casualty in the British Columbia forest industry’s struggle to balance its production against timber supplies that are shrinking since the mountain pine beetle infestation. Canfor, on...
by Working Forest | Sep 11, 2015 | Archives
Timber harvesting in Enderby’s watershed could be moving ahead. Tolko Industries presented plans for logging in the Brash Creek area to Enderby council Tuesday. “They have new plans for the watershed and we wanted to hear what they are doing,” said Mayor Greg McCune....
by Working Forest | Sep 11, 2015 | Archives
Dutch elm disease will claim more than 6,000 trees in Winnipeg this year, up significantly from the number of trees that were lost to the disease last year. “We’re all concerned,” said City of Winnipeg forester Martha Barwinsky. “That’s a...
by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2015 | Archives
Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released Senior Fellow Elizabeth Nickson’s paper “The Failures of Forest Certification and the Implications for the Public Wealth of the Canadian North”. In this paper, Nickson posits that the forest...
by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2015 | Archives
The Nova Scotia government has released information about the $700 million taxpayers invested in or have earmarked for 78 companies through the defunct Nova Scotia Jobs Fund. But confidentiality clauses or rules, agreed to by previous governments, makes it hard to...
by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2015 | Archives
The chasm separating British Columbia’s political and aboriginal leaders could not have been defined more clearly as the second annual all-chiefs meeting got underway in Vancouver Wednesday. B.C.’s Minister for Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, John...
