by Working Forest | Jul 15, 2015 | Archives
A Northern Engineered Wood Products (NEWPRO) particleboard facility is filing a permit amendment to become a wood pellet manufacturing plant. Particleboard production has been halted at the Smithers, BC, plant since January 2014. Although not typically required when...
by Working Forest | Jul 14, 2015 | Archives
A trend whereby B.C. forestry companies have been snapping up sawmills south of the border while shuttering plants here is likely to continue. That prediction, from a new Conference Board report, is part of a good news/bad news story about a sector contributing $12...
by Working Forest | Jul 14, 2015 | Archives
Anyone who knows Northern Ontario knows that forestry is king. We supply enormous amounts of wood, pulp, paper and a growing array of other products to the world made from the trees that comprise the vast boreal forest. Forestry took a big hit in the last recession...
by Working Forest | Jul 14, 2015 | Archives
The Quebec government and James Bay Cree representatives have signed a partnership and co-operation agreement aimed at resolving a forestry dispute about territory that stretches from Lac St. Jean to James Bay. The agreement between the Quebec government and the Grand...
by Working Forest | Jul 14, 2015 | Archives
A Quebec boreal forest will see about 1.3 million acres – more than a third of its land – protected from logging, the provincial government and the Grand Council of the Crees announced Monday. The Broadback Forest, located about 800 kilometres north of Montreal, is...
by Working Forest | Jul 14, 2015 | Archives
From Vancouver, where the hazy orange air smelled like a campfire last week, to smoke-clouded Saskatchewan, wildfires are adding even more scorch to a hot summer. The fire season in Western Canada started early this year and with a vengeance. Lightning set off...
