Within one year, Ontario Power Generation brought online two pellet-fueled power stations, both converted from coal. While Atikokan Generating Station uses traditional wood pellets to generate up to 200 MW of electricity, Thunder Bay Generation Station is a peaking plant that uses advanced biomass pellets. Ontario Power Generation has made a name for itself within…
United Steelworkers official Adam Connell is seeking names for a petition calling for a public inquiry into the sawmill blasts that took place at Lakeland Mills and Babine Forest Products. So far Connell, who is in Prince George this week, has gathered 5,200 names and aims to have 10,000 by the time it’s presented to…
Discover the innovative solutions proposed by a minister to protect our valuable forests from encroaching on farmland.
It stands out when visitors pull into the viewpoint to take in the Hope Slide, 170 km east of Vancouver on the old Crowsnest Highway on the way to Manning Park. Within the mountain vista behind the stark, grey rock swath that marks the path of the massive 1965 landslide is a scraggly, rust-coloured bald…
British Columbia’s auditor general says the province has failed to adequately address the long-term environmental impact of its resource-development decisions. Carol Bellringer issued a report Tuesday, saying that building roads, logging forests and exploring gas fields come with environmental, social and cultural consequences, but the government is not doing enough to consider them. Her report,…
It’s “the year of the forest tent caterpillar” in Saskatoon. Thousands of the tiny black, green, yellow and white insects are crawling their way up local trees and homes in their search for food. The good news, is the bug is relatively harmless. City of Saskatoon pest management supervisor Jeff Boone said tent caterpillar outbreaks…
There was free fried chicken deep in the woods on McLellans Mountain on Monday. The chicken came free with the brand new $450,000 forwarder delivered to Next Generation Forest Management Ltd. The eight-wheel-drive machine, which picks up logs cut by a harvester and delivers them to tractor-trailer trucks waiting at roadside, is the third new…
Catalyst Paper, the owner / operator of the Crofton Pulp Mill, has announced a major financial commitment to a similar facility located south of the border. The company made the announcement May 21, saying it would inject nearly $16 million into the Rumford Pulp and Paper Mill located in Rumford, Maine. This is a planned…
Koko Panossian is on death watch. The Glendale senior park services manager gingerly steps around fresh tree stumps, ghosts of 30-year-old coast redwood trees. His eyes meet the brown, scratchy limbs of two towering gentle giants. “You see these ones here,” he said, pointing skyward. “They are stressed. They are struggling to stay green. They…
An aggressive attack on a large forest fire near Kenora, Ont. was effective, but crews will still be working on it for a while. The fire grew under high winds on Saturday, but according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, it is not a threat to any community. Ten fire ranger crews are…