Victoria Times Colonist By Ben Parfitt, Times Colonist March 9, 2012 As more and more raw, unprocessed logs leave British Columbia’s coast in ocean freighters bound for the far side of the world, a common refrain from some in our forest industry is that we have no choice. Click for more
Vancouver Sun – 1 hour ago BC is ill-prepared to manage B.C’s beetle-ravaged forests as they slide into a long-term decline in both value and diversity, Auditor-General John Doyle said in a report released Thursday. Click for more
Sun Wave Forest Products purchased this mill in 2006 with a promise to inject investment and resume production. When the company did not fulfill its promise, the land was repossessed for taxes. Now Sun Wave has been caught trying received money from banks, based on the support of local Chinese government officials, that the mill [...]
Canada.com He started his consultation with local business and political leaders as well as other interested stakeholders in Fort St. John. "The immigration task force is part of the BC Jobs Plan. A strategy aimed at preparing for the expected economic boom," Yap … Click for more
Globe and Mail After an explosion destroyed the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake last week, families in the community lit two candles for missing and injured workers. Then they lit a third candle for the mill itself. Since the mill opened in 1975 as a … Click for more
Vanderhoof Omineca Express According to BC Hydro’s website, West Fraser Mills and Western Bioenergy, a subsidiary of French energy firm Dalkia will be paid around $150 a megawatt hour, about double what most sawmills are paid for power they generate by burning wood waste. … Click for more
Winnipeg Free Press OTTAWA – Canada’s uneasy forestry truce with the United States appears to be headed for a two-year extension that should keep the sniping at a low level into 2015. Industry and government sources on both sides of the border confirm there are no major … Click for more from the Winnipeg Free [...]
Vancouver Sun … it was the only operating sawmill in the region west of Smithers. … BC Hydro is constructing a power line north along Highway 37 and several natural … Click for more from the Vancouver Sun s, s
Winnipeg Free Press Last week, Quebec forestry company Tembec signed a deal to sell its Elko and Canal Flats sawmills and the associated 1.1 million cubic metres of lumber and cutting rights from Crown and private land in the southern BC Interior to Canfor for $60 million … Click for more from the Winnipeg Free [...]
DigitalJournal.com The Company has operations in western Canada and the southern United States. … of our Fraser Lake and Chetwynd sawmills in relation to their green energy … Click for more
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