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
Mile0city.ca A new skills training program in Northern BC was announced today as part of the province’s Jobs Plan. As a partnership between the United Steelworkers Unions and the province, the Northern Skills Training Pilot will focus on forestry and mining. … Click for more
Lesprom Network Canfor Corporation will be proceeding with capital improvement projects totaling $46.7 million at its Grande Prairie, Alberta facility and at the Prince George sawmill in British Columbia, Canada, as the company said in a press release received by … Click for more
Globe and Mail British Columbia’s native communities have often been, at best, reactive to Chinese investment in energy and mining projects. But that is starting to change. The Kaska Dena Council in Northern BC is in the final stages of a deal with a Chinese company … Click for more
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