Industry News
Harmac mill to be shut down; receiver fails to find strong enough bid
Canadian Press - July 17, 2008
VANCOUVER - The Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, B.C., will be shut down after the receiver in charge of finding a buyer for the operation, formerly run by bankrupt forestry firm Pope & Talbot, said it could not find a strong enough bid.
Auditor general's report slams sale of forestry lands
CBC News - July 17, 2008
B.C.'s Auditor General John Doyle has condemned former forests minister Rich Coleman for allowing a forestry company to remove land from three tree farm licences for residential development, citing the possibilities of conflicts of interest and insider trading by government staff.
First Nations forge trade links with Chinese
Gordon Hoekstra, Prince George Citizen - July 15, 2008
The first-ever B.C. First Nations forestry trade mission to China has been called a success by its participants.
CEP Lashes Out at Norampac
Packaging-Online.com - July 12, 2008
The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP), Canada’s largest union of forestry workers, is “outraged” that Norampac Cascades was not sincere from the outset about its plans to close its Toronto boxboard mill.
BC forest minister sees industry turnaround on horizon; to be more high-tech
Brenda Bouw, Canadian Press - July 11, 2008
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's new forest minister says recent investment in the industry proves a turnaround is coming and that part of his job is to help manage the business into a new era that expands beyond wood products to such uses as energy production.
Ontario lost 45,000 full-time jobs in June
Julian Beltrame, Canadian Press - July 11, 2008
OTTAWA – Tens of thousands of Canadians, most of them in Ontario, lost their full-time jobs or were forced into part-time work last month as the country's non-energy economy showed signs of retreating, two Statistics Canada reports suggest.
Fight climate change by using wood
Bill Philips, Prince George Free Press - July 11, 2008
The message was pretty simple – you can help fight climate change by using wood.
Challenging times behind latest Buchanan layoffs
TB News Source - July 11, 2008
Forestry jobs in the northwest will take another hit beginning next Friday when Buchanan Forest Products will lay off some more employees at its facilities in Nakina and Longlac.
Ontario lost 45,000 full-time jobs in June
Julian Beltrame, Canadian Press - July 11, 2008
OTTAWA – Tens of thousands of Canadians, most of them in Ontario, lost their full-time jobs or were forced into part-time work last month as the country's non-energy economy showed signs of retreating, two Statistics Canada reports suggest.
New housing prices rise at slowest pace since 2002
CTV.ca News Staff - July 11, 2008
New housing prices increased at their slowest pace in almost six years in May, says a new Statistics Canada report.
Fight climate change by using wood
Bill Philips, Prince George Free Press - July 11, 2008
The message was pretty simple – you can help fight climate change by using wood.
Challenging times behind latest Buchanan layoffs
TB News Source - July 11, 2008
Forestry jobs in the northwest will take another hit beginning next Friday when Buchanan Forest Products will lay off some more employees at its facilities in Nakina and Longlac.
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New Mountain Pine Beetle Report Released
September 18th 2007

The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) has a billion dollar appetite for Interior timber. A new report on the MPB states “Within the next eight years it will have destroyed 25% of the provinces marketable timber with a value pegged at over a billion dollars”.

The new report released by the Ministry of Forests paints a grim picture of the of BC forests stating the epidemic will kill more than one billion metres of Pine trees by the year 2015. Although experts predict the epidemic reached it's peak in 2005, it will not be until 2019 that losses from the Pine Beetle fall below 2003 levels.