Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) today released its 2015 Sustainability Report providing insight into the company’s priorities, and outlining opportunities on the journey towards becoming a more sustainable business. The report reinforces Domtar’s commitments and provides longer-term context for its decisions and activities, while revealing the connectivity between the two. “Sustainability at Domtar shapes…
Mayors from the member communities of the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) met with representatives of communities in Northern Quebec, as well as the forestry industry and First Nations in Timmins on Tuesday afternoon. The diverse group came together to discuss ways to counter the messaging of environmentalist groups about forest industry practices. Much…
What do you call it when a couple dozen silent people gaze at a lot of trees along a stick, occasionally turning it up at an arm’s length and focusing their eyes at its top end? The Finnish Championships in forestry skills, of course. This is the most important task in the competition, and the…
Wildfire activity throughout B.C. has calmed somewhat from the situation experienced just a couple of weeks ago. There are 127 wildfires burning in B.C. right now, three of them spotted yesterday. Those numbers are well below the days when as many as 18 new fires were being reported on practically a daily basis as most…
Stella-Jones Inc. second quarter sales reached $428.1 million, up 24.2% from $344.8 million a year ago. “Stella-Jones produced solid operating results in the second quarter driven by healthy demand in its core markets and a wider reach in the residential lumber category. Margins benefited from further selling price adjustments in response to evolving market conditions…
Vancouver claims to have the greenest building code of any city in North America, but the Brits are winning a global race to build energy-efficient new homes. And a report from the University of Victoria-based Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is calling on B.C. to start walking its talk. In the UK, the government, working…
At times, it’s difficult to shake the stereotype from the craft. Too often craftspeople are unfairly dismissed as antiquated and their products stale. Quilters with fusty, old floral blankets or candlestick makers with yellow beeswax pillars. The same can be said for woodturners and oversized fruit bowls. While yes, those bowls exist, woodturning isn’t as…
Hey Canada! Mother Nature is calling. She wants you to know that climate change is real, and she is going to kick your butt with another bad fire season unless you wake up and smell the smoke. Nearly four million hectares have burned so far this year in Canada – close to double the average…
The British Columbia government says the province’s parks are off limits to industrial activity under a new policy, but an environmental group fears it makes way for pipelines and other development projects. “Protecting our natural spaces is a priority,” Environment Minister Mary Polak said in a written statement Friday. “This policy provides more clarity around…
Alarm bells have been ringing in the wake of a recent rash of fatalities either directly or indirectly related to forestry activities. There have been five forestry related deaths this year and two fatalities associated with forestry activity. July 24th, a manual tree faller was struck by a tree and fatally injured in the Port…