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Eagle Lake receives $829,000 from CAF to set up forestry operation

Eagle Lake First Nation will receive $829,000 from the federal Community Adjustment Fund toward starting up a value-added forestry operation in northwestern Ontario.
Northern Ontario Business Staff
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Two Feathers president Terry Favelle looks at a map to plan development in the Red Lake area.

 
Eagle Lake First Nation will receive $829,000 from the federal Community Adjustment Fund toward starting up a value-added forestry operation in northwestern Ontario.

The Two Feathers Forest Products LP is a partnership between the First Nation communities of Eagle Lake, Wabigoon Lake Ojibway and Pikangikum with the Finnish Wood Tech Group.

The plan is establish two manufacturing plants, one in Red Lake and another in Eagle Lake, that will include primary sawing, log sorting, grading and chipping facility to feed a 9.9 megawatt biomass co-generation plant. Wood processed at Red Lake will be trucked to a planer mill at Eagle Lake to make specialty components for assembly-ready homes.

“We are pleased with our projects continued momentum and having reached this next step in Two Feathers funding,” said Two Feathers' President Terry Favelle in a statement.