by Working Forest | Mar 9, 2015 | Archives
After one of the coldest months on record in East Tennessee, many people are more than ready for some warm weather. But the especially frigid winter has been a life-saver for some of the mightiest trees in the forest. This winter’s sub-zero temperatures in the...
by Working Forest | Mar 9, 2015 | Archives
The Opposition NDP put the Attorney General in their crosshairs over the handling of the current coroner’s inquest into the Lakeland Mills explosion. Justice Minister Suzanne Anton fielded questions from B.C. NDP members in the Legislative Assembly Wednesday...
by Working Forest | Mar 9, 2015 | Archives
Canada’s lumber producers should be a happy lot. The U.S. housing market is coming back, exports are rising and the Canadian dollar is cheap. But the industry has a wary eye on its own version of the doomsday clock – the countdown to the Oct. 12 expiry of a long truce...
by Working Forest | Mar 9, 2015 | Archives
After a long siege of public pressure and negotiations, punctuated occasionally by media-savvy comic stunts, the 3M Co. has gone from the doghouse to darling of sustainable-forestry activists. All it took was a wholesale rethinking of its responsibility for the steady...
by Working Forest | Mar 9, 2015 | Archives
A new pulp and paper sourcing policy, aimed at protecting forests and respecting human rights, announced Thursday by 3M in collaboration with the environmental group ForestEthics, could have implications for industry giant Resolute Forest Products. Under the revised...
by Working Forest | Mar 9, 2015 | Archives
The explosion that destroyed the Lakeland Mills sawmill originated in a spot where equipment not rated for use in a high sawdust area was operating, a coroner’s inquest into the disaster heard Friday. B.C. Safety Authority engineer Jeff Coleman was on the stand...
