by Working Forest | May 18, 2016 | Articles
Union officials at the Tembec industrial complex are upset with news that 24 positions will be eliminated at the facility along with an addition of five new positions. The news came down in what was supposed to be the first of three days of scheduled meetings between...
by Working Forest | May 17, 2016 | Articles
After an initial flurry of optimism, Premier Christy Clark is now anxious about Canada’s prospects for a renewed agreement with the United States to manage the softwood lumber trade. “I am worried about softwood, period,” Clark told The Vancouver Sun in a recent...
by Working Forest | May 17, 2016 | Articles
Nova Scotia’s Department of Environment has laid charges in connection with a clear cutting incident inside Long Lake Provincial Park. Charges under the Crown Lands Act were laid Friday against Dexter Construction, Scott and Stewart Forestry Consultants, and a...
by Working Forest | May 17, 2016 | Articles
When Gary Lovett was studying the effect of acid rain in New York’s Catskill Mountains 20 years ago, he ended the experiment early because so many trees in the test plots were dying — not from acid rain, but from insect attacks. “I consider air pollution...
by Working Forest | May 17, 2016 | Articles
Things would have been drastically different if Northern Ontario had representatives at the time of Confederation, that according to a research paper recently released on the independence of Northern Ontario. The report, prepared by the Northern Policy Institute...
by Working Forest | May 17, 2016 | Articles
ThermalWood is putting European innovation into decks, guitars, furniture and siding in Canada and beyond in the form of long-lasting thermally treated wood. The Bathurst company applies the ThermoWood Association certified technique to thermally modify virtually any...
