Forestry Feature
Marathon optimistic about forest tenure pilot
Marathon optimistic about forest tenure pilot Lindsay Kelly There is new optimism in Marathon this week, following the creation of the Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation, the first pilot project to be established under the province's overhauled forest tenure system. Nawiinginokiima, which mea
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Atikokan mill positioned for European exports
Atikokan mill positioned for European exports
Poised for pellets
Ian Ross
A Thunder Bay entrepreneur expects to have contracts in hand by early spring to start exporting wood pellets to major European customers.
Ed Fukushima, president of Atikokan Renewable Fuels, is focused on firming up an order book
Pellet maker looks overseas Pellet maker looks overseas
Ian Ross
Tom Logan can't sell from an empty fibre basket.
The Toronto wood pellet entrepreneur is hopeful that an upcoming meeting this week with Ministry of Natural Resources officials in Marathon will produce some “clarity” in forging ahead with a bio-coal project in the No
Resolute FP to invest $12 million to $17 million in operation Resolute FP to invest $12 million to $17 million in operation
The competitive edge
Patrick Demers
The town of Iroquois Falls was happy to learn that Resolute Forest Products (the former AbitibiBowater) is investing $12 milllion to $17 million in the thermomechanical pulp mill.
“This is certainly good new
Sudbury and Nipissing Forests have mixed species Sudbury and Nipissing Forests have mixed species
Trees in transition
Liz Cowan
Managing a forest involves much more than planting trees. Various users, ranging from commercial to recreational, have to be considered along with the flora and fauna.
“The issues and the forests here are unique in that they a
