A key line in the recent throne speech declared: “The Government will strengthen its relationship with allies, especially with our closest friend and partner, the United States.” And with a formal state dinner in Washington slated for March 2016 — a rare event in Canada-U.S. relations — that pledge will surely be put to the…

The manager of the Boat Harbour cleanup project in Pictou County says it will take a couple of years before it’s known if the $52 million set aside will be enough to remediate decades of primarily pulp mill waste and other industrial residues. Nova Scotia’s Liberal government has pledged to shut down the government-owned Boat Harbour treatment facility in 2020. It’s a…

Woodfibre LNG hopes to cut the cost of its proposed $1.8-billion liquefied natural gas project near Squamish to offset a drop in prices for natural gas in China. That would allow the export facility to remain as a leading contender for the first proposed LNG project in B.C. to make a final investment decision, possibly…

After a year of contracting employment, Northeastern Ontario will slowly begin to find its economic footing in 2016, though progress will lag behind much of the rest of the province, according to a new report released today by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the Credit Unions of Ontario. Released with support from the Timmins…

Seven years ago, workers at the Harmac pulp mill near Nanaimo defied the odds and hung onto their jobs at a time when so many of their counterparts at other mills in British Columbia were losing theirs. Each worker scraped together $25,000 and three local investment groups pooled resources to save the pulp mill from…

Designed to reduce the high number of serious accidents in the forestry industry, the technology will be demonstrated to North American companies at a conference in March. The machines have already reduced accidents, conference organiser John Stulen of Innovatek said. “The serious harm statistics are well down and that’s because over the last three years,…

A Nova Scotia company says it’s the first in the world to create biofuel completely out of a forestry product. Cellufuel moved into the former Bowater Mersey paper plant in Brooklyn, N.S., after the plant closed in 2012, throwing around 2,000 people out of work. Since then, Cellufuel has been developing biofuel that could be…

At a meeting last week, some McBride residents spoke with concerns against the idea of creating a provincial park around the Ancient Forest. The province is working with the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation and other organizations to potentially establish a provincial park, a requirement to propose the site as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The…

Leading logging experts heading to Vancouver Logging Conference The tables are about to be turned on logging contractors in British Columbia. After years of exporting logging equipment and technology to countries like New Zealand, there’s been big change in forest harvesting down under. Kiwi loggers are set to show off their safe logging innovations on…