by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
The Ontario Forest Industries Association’s (OFIA) 72nd Annual Meeting celebrated the forest products sector’s role as a sustainable economic engine and employment generator in Ontario’s green economy. Opening the event, Jamie Lim, President and CEO...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
Comments are being accepted until May 3, 2015, on a new discussion paper released today as part of a comprehensive timber supply review for the Fraser Timber Supply Area. Feedback on the discussion paper will be considered by the chief forester before setting the new...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
One of the men killed in the Lakeland Mills sawmill explosion would “literally pound on the table in the lunchroom” when expressing his concerns about the level of wood dust in the facility, a coroners inquest into the incident heard Tuesday. Glenn Roche,...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corp. will complete a $22-million refit of its Abercrombie Point pulp mill with subcontractors after the Atlanta-based lead engineer withdrew from the installation phase. “We have the required qualified subcontractors here, and we’ve...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
The story of climate change is closely tied to that of the carbon cycle. The increasing amounts of carbon dioxide hanging in our atmosphere — as opposed to being locked up in the world’s oceans, soils, and forests — are leading to broken heat records and...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
When he was a boy, Marvin Yahey lived mostly off the land, hunting and trapping year-round with his family in the game-rich forests in northeastern British Columbia. But an explosion of resource development over the past three decades has so fractured the landscape...
