Forestry

Close to a million hectares of the Lake Nipigon Forest in northwestern Ontario is now certified to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standard.

Federal funding of $54.5 million will go to six projects in Northern Ontario, which the government says will help sustain jobs and advance the transformation of the forest sector.

The Ministry of Natural Resources has issued a forest resource processing facility licence to Rentech, to support the company in its conversion of a former oriented strandboard in Wawa to pellet production.

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is calling on Ottawa to “renew and replenish” the Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) program to help the struggling sector develop innovative technologies.

Resolute Forest Products will permanently shutting down a paper machine in Iroquois Falls in six months. The machine shutdown will impact 70 workers, but the northeastern Ontario mill will continue to make newsprint on its remaining machine.

The new owners of Terrace Bay's pulp mill say the conversion of the northwestern Ontario plant appears to remain on schedule to begin next year.

The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) have raised concerns about the lack of progress on agreements between environmental groups and Northern Ontario's forestry sector.

Eacom Timber's Ear Falls sawmill in northwestern Ontario will restart next spring with a new long-term labour in hand. Unifor announced Oct.

The Olav Haavaldsrud Timber Company has opened a 10-megawatt cogeneration plant in Hornepayne .

In the fall of 2010, KBM Resources had a boneyard of forestry equipment sitting in the weeds behind its Mooney Avenue offices in Thunder Bay .