A spruce budworm outbreak in Quebec could kill off trees spanning an area the size of New Brunswick in the next few years and fuel more forest fires, according to Natural Resources Canada. Yan Boulanger, a research scientist with the Laurentian Forestry Centre, said the impact of the budworm is most severe on Quebec’s North Shore, followed by…
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterCanadian Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. risks escalating a trade dispute between the countries over softwood lumber. Freeland, speaking in an interview with Bloomberg TV on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hangzhou, China, said there’s a chance the two sides won’t be able…
Canada’s international trade minister says anti-trade sentiment in the U.S., whipped up by Donald Trump and others, has made getting a deal on softwood lumber “fiendishly” complicated. “It’s a tough issue and there are some significant differences between the U.S. and the Canadian position, but we are working very, very hard,” Chrystia Freeland said in an…
Getting better access for value-added wood products in Asia and the U.S. is a big part of a new B.C. government wood industry competition strategy. The strategy includes seeking exemptions from trade quotas for specialty lumber and wood products in a new softwood lumber agreement with the U.S., which expired last fall. A pilot project…
Frank Dottori, the man credited with re-opening idled lumber mills in White River and Témiscaming, Quebec, has acquired control of the former Olav Haavaldsrud Timber (OHT) sawmill in Hornepayne. The deal is expected to revive a dormant 63-year-old forestry operation that until last year was the second-largest employer after CN Rail in Hornepayne, a community of 1,050…
After almost a year of uncertainty in Hornepayne, Ont., a new owner has closed the deal to purchase the idled lumber mill in the community. The mill, formerly owned by the Olav Haavaldsrud Timber Company, shut down in November, 2015, leaving 146 people out of work. Hornepayne mayor Morley Forster told CBC News he was pleased…
Forestry giant Resolute Forest Products Inc. has hit a setback in its high profile, ongoing defamation suit against Greenpeace and two of its activists. Resolute is suing the environmental activist organization for damages of $5 million, in addition to punitive damages of $2 million, after it published a report about the company’s logging practices in Ontario and Quebec, which Resolute…
It looks like a giant waterbed, covering an area the size of four football fields and surrounded by a chest-high concrete perimeter wall. As Donald Trump might say, it’s huge! And like the wackadoodle U.S. presidential candidate, this massive vessel, constructed next to West Fraser Timber’s Slave Lake Pulp mill, is also full of gas. In this case, biogas. Technically, the big waterbed is known…
Dartmouth’s Main Street could soon be home to an innovative, environmentally-friendly wood building — all part of the city’s revitalization plan. On Friday, Atlantic Wood Works announced the development of Garden View, a six storey mixed-use building. It’s the first building planned for a project called Reinventing Main Street that is looking to provide affordable…
A group that represents 30 northern Manitoba First Nations wants to talk with the province about buying a mill that is closing in December. Tolko Industries says its mill near The Pas will close on Dec. 2, putting 332 employees out of work. Sheila North Wilson, grand chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc., says the closure will affect many…