Some residents of the Ghost Valley, west of Cochrane, are upset that logging trucks have been granted permission to use local roads to haul timber. “The road use decision is a stinging disappointment in a series of disappointments for the community,” said resident Sharon MacDonald. Spray Lakes Sawmills has cleared regulatory hurdles with the Bighorn municipal district to…
City council has approved the formation of two new task forces designed to rejuvenate forestry in the community and to come up with a plan for the city’s prestigious waterfront property. The task forces were first announced by Mayor Andy Adams in his inaugural address last December as the new council came into office. Adams…
One-off costs totalling Can$19.4m in connection with the closure of the Canal Flats sawmill in British Columbia, as well as declining selling prices on softwood-lumber markets in North America and Asia have resulted in the third quarter in a sharp fall in operating result at Canfor. At Can$8.5m, the operating result was down year on…
Three individuals temporarily blocked logging company Teal Jones Group’s road building work in the Walbran Valley on Tuesday, suggesting that confrontation in the area may escalate. Dave Cascagnette, Trevor Schinkel and Jennifer Whitehouse acted on their own, not as part of any organized group, according to an announcement the Friends of Carmanah/Walbran distributed. The group…
Forestry officials in Indonesia are training elephants to help with the management of the local area. Trained elephants are now able to assist firefighter crews to put out forest fires, and prevent them from igniting. In the elephant conservation centre of Siak district, as many as 23 elephants have been trained to be ‘forest watchdogs’. Carrying water…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has approved a $32.5-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by investors who lost money when Sino-Forest Corp. collapsed in 2012 amid allegations of fraud. Several Canadian banks and other financial institutions that helped the Chinese forestry company raise millions on the financial markets agreed to the settlement back…
Dennis Day was all ready to protest a Mi’kmaq moose hunt that Parks Canada approved for Monday on North Mountain in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, but there was nothing to protest. Day, a resident of nearby Cape North, set up camp along the Cabot Trail just outside the park on Sunday night, but Mi’kmaq…
The Highway of Heroes Tribute and Forests Ontario have launched a campaign to honour Canada’s fallen by planting 117,000 trees — one for every soldier since Confederation — along Highway 401 between Trenton and Toronto. In 2007, the portion of Highway 401 between Glen Miller Road in Trenton and Keele Street in Toronto was officially…
Prince George, B.C.- Conifex has made its decision, and the El Dorado sawmill in the Southern US will be upgraded first. Conifex had been assessing both its idled Mackenzie Site One sawmill and its recently purchased El Dorado facility in Arkansas as to which facility would be at the top of the priority list for…
The union is decrying the closing of the Canal Flats sawmill, which will officially close up after nearly 100 years of operation in the Columbia Valley in various forms. According to Doug Singer, the president of the United Steelworkers Local 1-405, the union members actually ran the last log and boards through in late September…