Even the newest residents of Squamish likely have a sense that the forest industry is a large part of Squamish’s past, but what does it mean to Squamish today? The Squamish Chief sat down with Jeff Fisher, president and forestry manager of Sqomish Forestry LP, to talk about logging in the district. Q: What do…
Northern Pulp has fired one its senior managers after he confronted the mayor of New Glasgow at a charity event on the weekend. “I was fired not about incompetence or something I did in the mill. I was fired because I voiced my opinion and expressed myself to the mayor,” says Aby Karoud, who until…
At first glance, it looks like a wooden castle is going up in downtown Sudbury. Crews at the site of the new 54,000 square foot Laurentian University School of Architecture building have been pouring concrete and installing rebar in the way you might expect at a construction site. But two-story high walls made from an engineered wood product not often seen in northern Ontario have…
It makes sense that the material we have in greatest abundance on the West Coast — wood — is also the most preferred by local furniture designers. “It’s alive, it’s in its true form, it’s just such a beautiful material and it’s so versatile,” says Romney Shipway of Vancouver’s Shipway Design, who designed the new…
Green Party Leader David Coon has failed in a bid to cancel the wood supply contracts between the provincial government and several forestry companies. Green Party Leader David Coon described Wednesday, the day his bill was defeated, as a sad day for New Brunswick forests. (CBC) Liberal and Progressive Conservative members joined forces on Wednesday…
After 25 years as a lumber grader and several attempts at the championship, Tolko Industries’ Rachhpal Sahota captured the title of B.C.’s Top Lumber Grader for 2015. “I finally got it,” a happy Sahota said Thursday, holding a framed certificate of the win. “It feels good.” Sahota beat out close to 30 of the top…
Today, NDP forestry critic Gilles Bisson blasted the forestry minister for allowing wood cut in Ontario forests to be shipped to Quebec over Ontario mills that need it. “Minister, you will know of Little John Enterprises in Timmins a second-generation sawmill that’s been operating in Timmins for a number of years. They have come to…
Alaska Airlines says it will fly a demonstration flight next year using 1,000 gallons of a biofuel made from wood waste in Northwest forests. The jet biofuel is being developed by the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance using tree branches left after a timber harvests. The five-year project is being supported by the U.S….
Catalyst Paper (TSX:CYT) today announced that it has been named for the ninth consecutive year as one of the Best 50 Canadian Corporate Citizens by Corporate Knights, “the magazine for clean capitalism”, which reports on corporate sustainability and transparency and produces numerous indices, including Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens. “We are proud to be recognized for…
Along with the Ontario Forest Industry Association and its counterpart in Quebec the Quebec Forest Industry Council, the group held a press conference at Parliament Hill and then a series of meetings with federal ministries on the issues at hand (namely eco-terrorism). The mayors are pushing back against campaigns by groups like Greenpeace (which they…