by Working Forest | Jun 12, 2015 | Archives
Premier Christy Clark, Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson helped Lee Doney, chair, Western Forest Products, celebrate $30 million in new capital investment in the Duke Point sawmill. Of the $30 million, $28 million will be invested...
by Working Forest | Jun 12, 2015 | Archives
Western Forest Products is spending $30 million — most of it in Nanaimo — to upgrade three Vancouver Island sawmills. Lee Doney, company chairman, said today at the Duke Point mill: “Our harvesting strategies and continued demand for our western red cedar and...
by Working Forest | Jun 12, 2015 | Archives
Greenpeace is fighting back after members of North Eastern Ontario Municipal Association (NEOMA) likened the environmentalist group to “eco-terrorism.” During a press conference this week, the mayors of NEOMA member communities, including Timmins’ Steve Black,...
by Working Forest | Jun 11, 2015 | Archives
When the “war in the woods” was in full swing in British Columbia, one of the front lines ran through the Walbran Valley on southern Vancouver Island. And now, after 24 years of relative peace, it may do so again as a dispute is set to spill out of the back rooms and...
by Working Forest | Jun 11, 2015 | Archives
The Possibilities Are Wide Open NICOLE LEIBEL “The better I do my job, the better everything else runs for everybody else.” Nicole Leibel moved from British Columbia to the Manitoba Winnipeg town of Swan River in 1987. Starting as a laborer at the Louisiana Pacific...
by Working Forest | Jun 11, 2015 | Archives
More than 12 million trees have died in California. A combination of drought, heat, and insects may be to blame. A new study is the first to examine the wide spectrum of interactions between drought and insects. Researchers first devised a framework to look at the...
