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Grassy Narrows First Nation takes Ontario to court over clear cutting
Grassy Narrows First Nation, in northwestern Ontario, is taking legal action Monday to stop Ontario’s plan to allow logging near… read more…
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BRIGHTON: Time to get to the bottom of NSP biomass mess
Note to Nova Scotia Power: don’t burn green wood or wood left out in the rain. And don’t sign contracts with… read more…
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What about the Prince Albert Pulp Mill?
Coun. Don Cody suggests that more can be done to reignite the mill. It’s been almost two years since Paper… read more…
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Reactions pour in to mill closure
Reactions continue to pour in to the news that the Canal Flats saw mill will close permanently in early November.… read more…
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Wood pellets in high demand and short supply
Wood pellets have become a favourite for those who shy away from electricity or fuel to heat their home. But… read more…
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Chemical herbicide spraying bad for boreal, petition argues
More than a thousand people from northern Ontario signed a petition this summer to stop the spraying of glyphosate herbicides, according… read more…
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Column: Innovative research done in Alberta could help rehabilitate beetle-killed stands in B.C.
Alberta is trying different ways to capture value from stands impacted by mountain pine beetle in particular small stem lodgepole… read more…
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Professor trying to out-build beavers at UNB woodlot
A system installed in the University of New Brunswick’s woodlot in Fredericton to maintain water levels is expected to ease tensions between humans… read more…
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Canfor Corp. closes Canal Flats sawmill in the east Kootenays
Canfor Corp.’s Canal Flats sawmill in the east Kootenays has become the latest casualty in the British Columbia forest industry’s… read more…
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Enderby eyes logging plans
Timber harvesting in Enderby’s watershed could be moving ahead. Tolko Industries presented plans for logging in the Brash Creek area… read more…
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Dutch elm disease to kill 6K trees in Winnipeg this year, most in 10 years
Dutch elm disease will claim more than 6,000 trees in Winnipeg this year, up significantly from the number of trees… read more…
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Paper says certification devastating for forest industry
Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released Senior Fellow Elizabeth Nickson’s paper “The Failures of Forest Certification and the Implications… read more…
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Nova Scotia Jobs Fund investments revealed by government
The Nova Scotia government has released information about the $700 million taxpayers invested in or have earmarked for 78 companies… read more…
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B.C. chiefs call reconciliation talks ‘strike two’
The chasm separating British Columbia’s political and aboriginal leaders could not have been defined more clearly as the second annual… read more…
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Canfor announces permanent closure of Canal Flats sawmill
Canfor Corp. announced Wednesday (September 9) that is is permanently closing its Canal Flats sawmill, laying off 65 workers and… read more…
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Logging on city lands creates revenue
Powell River Community Forest made a profit of close to $750,000 from logging city-owned property this year. At the Tuesday,… read more…
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Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement likely to expire next month, says Forestry Minister
The Canada-United States Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) will likely expire next month and enter a one-year standstill period, said British… read more…
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Firefighters light up social media with stunning images of the U.S. West ablaze
Firefighter Stephanie Preheim had only just arrived at the storage facility she was assigned to protect from a massive wildfire… read more…
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September brings changes to WorkSafeBC enforcement
New tools designed to help WorkSafeBC crack down on regulation and Workers Compensation Act violators are coming into effect Sept.… read more…
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Canadian Boreal Forest agreements gets global attention
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is celebrating the international recognition for the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) at… read more…
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Consultants go high-tech on compiling wood inventory data
A New Liskeard-headquartered forest management company is close to commercializing a proprietary remote sensing technology to calculate forest inventories. First… read more…
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Rate of global forest loss halved: UN report
The rate at which the world is losing its forests has halved, but an area of woodland the size of… read more…
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P.E.I. budworm tracking data important to scientists
A summer long research project on spruce budworm on P.E.I. has been completed. About two dozen citizen scientists assisted the… read more…
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Opposition parties weigh in on NDP’s plan to protect the Castle wilderness
Alberta’s plan to fully protect the Castle wilderness area in southwestern Alberta is being both panned and praised by opposition parties.… read more…
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BC wants to rein in drones after interference at wildfires
The B.C. government is calling for stiffer penalties for the illegal use of drones after unmanned aerial vehicles flew dangerously… read more…