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 [...]
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 [...]
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
CTV.ca Clark’s $300-million jobs plan, which she introduced last week after a provincewide tour, includes promises of eight new BC mines by 2015 and nine upgrades to existing mining operations. She didn’t name any of the new mines, but spoke glowingly of the … 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
China edges out US as top BC lumber customer Vancouver Sun The minister credited the United Steelworkers union for reaching innovative agreements with the province’s forestry sector to get smaller sawmills back in operation to meet the new demand. “There was no politics involved; it was just about making … Click for more from the [...]
CBC.ca Beginning of Story Content Trade figures show the value of softwood lumber exported to China has surpassed the US for the first time, sending powerful signals about the importance of the Asia-Pacific markets for BC’s economy and job prospects. … Click for more at CBC
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, [...]
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
Vancouver Sun BC is an unequivocal world leader in terms of forest sustainability, with the 6.4-million-hectare Great Bear Rainforest often being held up as an example to … Click for more
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