Prince George Housing Development

There has recently been a increase in the interest in condo and townhouse owners from the Vancouver area in the purchasing of units in Prince George for this children while they go to school at UNBC www.unbc.ca.  There is even some interest in developers from Vancouve r to develop these types of units to serve the [...]

GLC Creates Marine Air Conditioning System

GLC Controls www.glccontrols.com has played an integral role in assisting Dometic Marine, from Sweden www.dometic.com the world’s leading supplier of marine air conditioning, launch its new Bypassable Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) to the US commercial marine market. As the first Bypassable VFD available for maritime application, this innovation represents a clear breakthrough in marine VFD technology [...]

Public hearings on Enbridge’s Northern pipeline to begin Jan. 10

Vancouver Sun Enbridge’s Northern Gateway bid is to build two pipelines from Bruderheim, 60 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, along a 1172-kilometre route to Kitimat on the BC coast. One would be a 36-inch pipe, which would deliver to Kitimat for export up to 525000 … Click for more

Canfor permanently closes Rustad Sawmill and Tackama Mill in BC

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 [...]

US mulls major levy on cargo coming from BC ports

Globe and Mail Canadian governments at all levels have invested $3.5-billion in modernizing the ports at Prince Rupert and Vancouver, and in related road, rail and border infrastructure. But although BC’s share of West-Coast container traffic bound for the US has … Click for more

Canfor announces capital investments in Grande Prairie and Prince George …

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

Timberspan Wood Products Presenting at the Edmonton Log and Cottage Show

Timberspan Wood Products will be exhibiting at the Edmonton Log and Cottage Show. This show is the largest show for log and timber builders, development companies and real estate developers in Western Canada. This show will take place at Northland Expo Centre and Timberspan Wood Products will be exhibiting at booth #503 on April 8-10, [...]

Four Square for Northern British Columbia

If you are a retail business that has customers come to you door you need to be on Four Square. If you are not you are missing out on the marketing for your business with the tech savvy generation. In order to be “on” Four Square you need to understand what it is and how [...]

Stikine Energy Collects 500 Tonnes

Stikine Energy (TSXV-SKY) recently removed 500 tonnes of samples from the Frac Sand Project near Bear lake, which is 60 km north of Prince George, BC on Highway 97. The samples were removed in early March 2011 and trucked to the the pilot plant operation in Abbotsford BC. The material will be processed and utilized [...]

BC pulp mills receive funding for green upgrades

Business in Vancouver  Quesnel and Canfor Pulp’s Northwood mill in Prince George are the latest pulp mills in BC to be earmarked for federal government money to reduce … Click for more

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