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MacLean: Trans-Pacific Partnership deal key to diversifying Alberta’s economy
Nearly lost in the noise of last year’s federal election was the finalization of the historic Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The… read more…
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Walbran logging buffer-zone injunction extended
Logging company Teal Cedar Products has been granted an extension of an injunction that will keep environmental activists at bay… read more…
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Regina researchers use tree rings to explain past, predict future
It’s hard to predict the weather, but University of Regina researchers are using trees to trace weather patterns from the past… read more…
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Fire at Canfor sawmill
The Grande Prairie Fire Department was called to a fire at the Canfor mill on Wapiti Road (108 Street) at… read more…
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Mario Canseco: In B.C., politicians ignore environment at their peril
For many Canadians, 2015 will be remembered as a banner year for the environmental movement. In the past three months,… read more…
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Why Resolute can’t win in an ever-changing bush war
Long before global environmentalists had even heard of the oil sands, their Canadian target of predilection was the forest industry.… read more…
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Softwood industry needs louder B.C. voice
To the Editor: When Christy Clark said she would make a new softwood lumber agreement with the United States her… read more…
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Value-added lumber seen as key to Asia trade
It sounds a bit contradictory to call the province’s recent forestry trade mission to Japan and China a success when… read more…
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Northern Pulp sues over alleged broken contract
Mill claims it had deal with firm to design, install pollution control systemNorthern Pulp is suing a company it alleges… read more…
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Decline of Maine paper mills behind Vermont’s forestry woes
Vermont officials say the state’s increasing forestry are due to the decline of the paper mill industry in Maine. Michael… read more…
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B.C. lumber trade delegation to Asia encouraged by response
It sounds a bit contradictory to call the province’s recent forestry trade mission to Japan and China a success when… read more…
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Canada’s ‘value-added’ exports present a good-news story for 2016
Jim Stanford is an adviser to Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union, and Harold Innis Industry Professor of Economics at… read more…
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BRIGHTON: The high price of government support
Government subsidies for the Cape Breton paper mill have embroiled the province in another trade dispute. A previous dispute that… read more…
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Fight for BC’s Central Walbran Valley Reignited As Government Allows Old-Growth Logging
The early 1990s was a pivotal time for the forest industry and for forest activism in British Columbia. Massive demonstrations… read more…
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How a trade feud with Canada built hundreds of homes in places like New Orleans
One little-known legacy of the now-expiring softwood lumber agreement: it spawned a massive, Canadian-funded humanitarian effort in the United States… read more…
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Registration for 2016 Forests Ontario annual conference now open
We are excited to announce that registration for the 2016 Forests Ontario Annual Conference is open! The conference will take… read more…
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Jon Sweeney wins award for work on brown spruce longhorn beetle
If you had to sexually attract a brown spruce longhorn beetle, would you know what to do? Jon Sweeney knows.… read more…
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FSC launching mediation process to bring peace to Quebec’s boreal forest
The Forest Stewardship Council is launching a mediation process to try and bring peace to Quebec’s woodlands. The organization that… read more…
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Budworm Tracker program recorded ‘unheard of’ 90 per cent return rate on data
The Budworm Tracker program, which involved field reports from ‘citizen scientists,’ received an “unheard of” 90 per cent return rate… read more…
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New Director Appointed to Cameco’s Board
Cameco announced today that its board appointed Don Kayne as a director effective January 1, 2016 until the next annual… read more…
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Beech bark disease rolling through county
It starts as fluff on the side of a beech tree’s smooth grey bark. Pinpricks of white wax dot the… read more…
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Columbia Forest Products mill reopens in Rutherglen, ON
Columbia Forest Products is reopening its Rutherglen veneer mill, east of North Bay, after a five-year shutdown. Gary Gillespie, vice-president… read more…
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Resolute Responds to Misleading Statements
Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) responds to misleading media statements by third parties regarding the U.S. Department… read more…
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Northern Pulp’s Pictou pulp mill meets air quality standards
Northern Pulp says air pollution from the stacks at its pulp mill in Pictou County are now fully below environmental thresholds established… read more…
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Saskatoon to permit taller wood frame structures
The city is expected to start permitting six-storey wood frame construction in early 2016. Saskatoon’s current building code limits structures… read more…