A foreign company that has been replanting thousands of hectares of farmland with trees in British Columbia in order to claim carbon credits has been told the practice is not sustainable and is damaging local economies. In a letter, the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako (RDBN) told the British-based multinational Reckitt Benckiser Inc. (RB) that its…
To begin the ascent of Golden Hinde – the tallest peak on Vancouver Island in B.C.’s Strathcona Provincial Park – a climber first must spend two or three days on a trail that begins at a pullout near Myra Falls copper-lead-zinc mine. For the few British Columbians who have ventured onto this part of the…
New Brunswick’s forests and tides are regularly marketed as tourist attractions, but renewable energy experts say they could both play an important role in reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. A 2012 study carried out by forester Stéphane Bouchard said that byproducts from the wood industry in New Brunswick have the potential to generate up…
Catalyst Paper’s earnings, before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, was down in its fourth quarter to $6.8 million from $8.0 million in the third quarter. The company reported a net loss, excluding specific items of $10.4 million in its fourth quarter compared to $10.8 million in its third. The results were a due to increased…
Revelstoke City Council has agreed to request the Minister of Forests to mediate discussions on potential logging within Mount Macpherson’s recreational area as the next step in the sensitive issue. Next year, BC Timber Sales, a semi-autonomous arm of the B.C. provincial Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, plans to log an area that includes trails…
Muskrat Falls contractor pursuing suit after being thrown off megaproject Great Western Forestry disputes Nalcor Energy’s claim its work on the Muskrat Falls (Newfoundland & Labrador) project was not up to snuff. The contractor — once tasked with clearing trees from a transmission line right of way between Muskrat Falls and Churchill Falls — is pressing a…
Emergency crews were called to a logging accident just after 8 a.m. Wednesday morning. Three loggers were hit by a tree near the Monashee Pass forestry road, east of Cherryville. “It was a logging incident. They were actually actively logging and one of the logs struck the three people on the line,” says RCMP Sgt….
The genome of the mountain pine beetle – the insect that has devastated B.C.’s lodgepole pine forests – has been decoded by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. This is a first for the mountain pine beetle and only the second beetle genome ever sequenced. The first…
Calvin Archibald, Next Generation Forest Management Ltd. is based in Pictou County currently working for Northern Pulp. This will provide some recent history, summarize contribution to the Nova Scotia economy and voice concern about the future of our industry. In particular it will address risks inherent in the current impasse over the Industrial Approval Permit…
Funding announcements, the future of fibre and an informative discussion on Aboriginal land title highlighted the final day of the Council of Forest Industries’ (COFI) 2015 annual conference, which took place on April 8 and 9 in Prince George, B.C. Approximately 500 people packed into the auditoriums at the Prince George Civic Centre to listen…