B.C.-based Catalyst Paper has been hit with punishing duties on its U.S. exports of a specialty paper because American companies say Canadian producers are subsidized and dumping the product at below-market prices south of the border. However, Catalyst argues the tariff has been unfairly slapped on its exports without having been given due process in…
British Columbia’s Chief Forester Diane Nicholls announced Thursday that Canfor Corp.’s annual allowable cut (AAC) for a cut block near Chetwynd will increased by 72 per cent from 900,000 cubic metres to 1.5 million. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations said the increase is necessary to salvage dead trees affected by mountain…
Results of a new survey show the grizzly bear population in western Alberta is making a strong recovery. The number of bears in the Foothills east of Banff and Jasper National parks has doubled over the past decade, the study by fRI Research found. Between 2004 and 2014, the grizzly bear population in Bear Management Area…
Manitoba is moving forward with a 10-year boreal woodland caribou recovery strategy to create an environment where herds can thrive, the provincial government announced on Thursday. The strategy’s key goals are to maintain self-sustaining local populations and create the opportunity for effective management and protection of their habitat, Conservation Minister Tom Nevakshonoff said in a…
B.C.’s International Trade Minister Teresa Wat says she’s disappointed with a decision by U.S. officials to impose costly duties on a paper product produced by four Canadian paper mills, including B.C.’s Catalyst Paper. The U.S. Department of Commerce says imports of supercalendered paper have been subsidized so Canadian mills now face a duty of 18.85…
This interesting building is actually the winning entry into the so-called Finlandia Prize for Architecture, which is organized in Finland. The building is called Puukuokka and was designed by the OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture and build out of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT). The Puukuokka building was constructed using prefabricated modular cubical elements, or more precisely…
West Fraser has entered into an agreement to acquire Manning Diversified Forest Products Ltd. which has sawmill operations located in Manning, Alberta and related timber harvesting rights, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.The sawmill has operated at the site since 1993 and has been producing approximately 100 million board…
The Northern Pulp mill has been charged under Environment Canada’s Fisheries Act with releasing pulp and paper effluent into water inhabited by fish. On June 10, 2014, a leak in an effluent pipe forced a shutdown of the Pictou County mill. That pipe carries 90-million litres of pulp waste every day from the mill site at Abercrombie Point, under the…
What was to be a routine maintenance shutdown for the Chetwynd Mechanical Pulp Mill in northeastern B.C. will now be a longer closure because of poor market conditions. The mill had only reopened in the spring with a $50-million upgrade, after Paper Excellence Canada purchased the facility in 2014. In a news release, Paper Excellence…
The United States Department of Commerce will announce Wednesday afternoon whether it will uphold a 20.33 per cent tariff on imports from Port Hawkesbury Paper LP. The ruling has the ability to significantly affect the competitiveness of the Point Tupper mill’s product in its largest market. It won’t just reverberate through northern Nova Scotia, where…