by Working Forest | Feb 24, 2015 | Archives
Canada’s biggest railway reached a last-minute tentative agreement with one of its unions on Monday, averting a lockout that threatened to delay imports from Asia and compound a U.S. West Coast port logjam. Canadian National Railway Co and Unifor, the union...
by Working Forest | Feb 24, 2015 | Archives
Global commodity prices have tumbled to levels below the depths of the Great Recession, underscoring the widespread difficulties facing the global economy. While crude oil’s price collapse has been in the spotlight, a wide range of other commodities are suffering as...
by Working Forest | Feb 24, 2015 | Archives
At first blush, year-end financials and stock prices for B.C.’s largest forest companies would suggest the province’s forestry sector is well on the road to recovery after a decade-long slump. Interfor Corp. (TSX:IFP), for example, posted record sales of $1.4 billion...
by Working Forest | Feb 23, 2015 | Archives
The B.C. government has designated 567 old-growth management areas on the Upper and Lower Sunshine Coast. Announced last week by the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, the protected areas cover 18,421 hectares, or about 13.6 per cent of Crown...
by Working Forest | Feb 23, 2015 | Archives
Much of B.C.’s environmental deregulation goes too far in handing over matters of public interest to those employed by industry, says a University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre study. The shift to so-called professional reliance in the past decade has put more...
by Working Forest | Feb 23, 2015 | Archives
Nanaimo registered professional forester Morgan Kennah was chosen by her peers to sit on the Association of B.C. Forest Professionals council. She is one of two new members voted onto the council by the provincial body representing forestry professionals that chose a...
