by Working Forest | May 25, 2015 | Archives
Re: “The future of plastic bags” (Editorial, May 22) We challenge your claim that “paper bags take more energy and precious resources to produce (than plastic shopping bags).” First, what resources are more “precious”? The non-renewable fossil fuels that most plastic...
by Working Forest | May 25, 2015 | Archives
Given Ottawa’s recent focus on trade opportunities in Southeast Asia, it’s natural that people start asking whether such trade is realistic. The countries of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, combined are the seventh-largest economy in the world with...
by Working Forest | May 25, 2015 | Archives
A 25,000-hectare wildfire that had been burning out of control for more than two weeks southwest of Prince George, B.C. is about 80 percent contained, the B.C. Wildfire Mangement Branch reported Sunday. Quiet winds, cool temperatures and wetter weather is helping...
by Working Forest | May 25, 2015 | Archives
Alberta forest fires have prompted the shutdown of about 9 percent of Canada’s oil sands production. Cenovus Energy Inc. closed its 130,000-barrel Foster Creek operations and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. shut its 80,000-barrel-a-day Primrose project after a forest...
by Working Forest | May 23, 2015 | Archives
Five years after Columbia Forest Products shut down its Rutherglen veneer plant, efforts are underway to reopen the facility. “I’m very optimistic,” said Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Jay Aspin, who toured the plant Tuesday with company representatives, as well as...
by Working Forest | May 22, 2015 | Archives
The province of Quebec has a lot of trees and forests, and a nascent Cross-Laminated Timber industry. Now Quebec City’s Pointe-aux-Lièvres eco-district is getting a 13 storey tower constructed of mostly CLT, 12 storeys of apartments on top of a concrete podium....
