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Log Export Ban Advocates are Barking up the Wrong Tree. Again.
An openly partisan coalition of labour unions and internationally funded environmental activists opposed to BC timber harvesting, are once again… read more…
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Export of logs and wood waste responsible for job losses – Comment
During the open line show on CBC radio Feb. 27 most of the people phoning in were against the export… read more…
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Using innovation to drive commercialization in B.C.’s forest sector
The challenge is clear. While British Columbia’s forest sector has a distinct advantage in market development, there are untapped opportunities… read more…
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Alberta prepares for early wildfire season
Whitecourt and area residents will have to be extra careful with their campfires earlier on this year. Wildfire season in… read more…
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Cutting through the softwood lumber dispute
Softwood lumber strife between Canada and forestry titans to the south is certainly burning upheadlines this year. The buzz on… read more…
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B.C. Timber Sales’ error-riddled reporting deemed ‘non-compliant’ in audit
B.C. Timber Sales’ Okanagan office made so many errors in required reporting on reforestation work that an audit by B.C.’s… read more…
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Loggers finding few salvageable trees in wake of ferocious Fort McMurray wildfire
Wildfires that swept through the northern Alberta forest near Fort McMurray last May continue to frustrate loggers trying to harvest… read more…
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How trade jitters made lumber February’s best-performing commodity
Lumber futures scored the biggest gain among major commodities for the month of February, as Donald Trump’s first full month… read more…
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Eacom expects new U.S. tariffs are inevitable
Eacom Timber Corporation is hopeful that a new task force announced by the federal government last week will be able… read more…
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Canfor Continues Focus on Bio-Fuel Development
It has been nearly a year since Canfor went public with its exploration of creating bio-crude from pulp operation waste streams.… read more…
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Unions, environmentalists call for log export ban
One of the planks in NDP Leader John Horgan’s election platform is made from raw logs (he wants their export… read more…
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The First Biomass Torrefaction Plant in Canada Begins the Commercialization of New Products
Airex Energy officially inaugurated its biomass torrefaction plant, located in the La Prade industrial park in Bécancour, Quebec. The industrial… read more…
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Designer forests: Scientists hope to tune up Canada’s trees to thrive in changing climate
Forest geneticists aim to tune up Canada’s working forests with trees better suited to changing climate conditions and that increase timber… read more…
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Forestry workshop held in Kenora
It’s all about innovation. FP Innovations and the Canadian Institute of Forestry held an Excellence and Innovation in Operational Planning… read more…
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Resolute finds a North Shore partner
Resolute Forest Products signed a five-year commercial agreement with the Red Rock Indian Band, an Ojibwe First Nation in northwestern… read more…
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Ontario government ordered to pay members of First Nation $390,000 after logging charges dropped
The Ontario government has been ordered to pay four aboriginal people $390,000 after the prosecution decided at the last minute… read more…
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U.S. law firm employs anti-mafia laws to sue forest activists
A Canadian forestry giant is using legislation most often deployed against the mafia to sue Greenpeace over allegations about the… read more…
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Global Biomass Pellets Market to Exceed $8.34 Bn in 2020
Zion Research has published a new report titled “Global Biomass Pellets Market for Residential and Industrial applications: Global Market Perspective,… read more…
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Canada’s Mercer International to buy German biomass plant
Canadian pulp manufacturer Mercer International has agreed to buy one of Germany’s largest sawmills and a biomass power plant. Mercer… read more…
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Government of Canada Announces Task Force on Softwood Lumber
Canada’s forest sector is vital to a strong Canadian economy. Enhanced collaboration between federal and provincial governments will help to… read more…
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Local forestry safe under Trump: FSC president
A Donald Trump presidency doesn’t have to mean uncertainty for the local forestry industry or its environmental ethics, according to… read more…
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EACOM Welcomes Government of Canada Task Force on Softwood Lumber
EACOM Timber Corporation welcomes news by Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr of the creation of the Federal-Provincial Task Force… read more…
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Wood-Mizer Announces TITAN Wideband Sawmill Equipment
With the introduction of Wood-Mizer TITAN, the company now offers a full line of wideband sawmill equipment that is designed… read more…
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Taking a stand in forestry
The tenacity to stay the course and get their fair share of the economic benefits from natural resources has allowed… read more…
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J.D. Irving challenge to southern N.B. woodlot groups heads to trial
J.D. Irving’s dispute with two southern New Brunswick woodlot groups will go to trial, a judge in Saint John has decided.… read more…