Forestry

With the northwestern Ontario’s forestry industry on the rebound, municipal leaders vow to continue lobbying the provincial government to keep up the flow of wood fibre to this region’s sawmills.

Resolute Forest Products has been fined $55,000 after a worker was injured at its Iroquois Falls paper mill in 2014. In Oct.

Province provides $1.2 million to Sudbury's Centre for Occupational Research in Safety and Health

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is vowing to remove 30 megatonnes (MT) of greenhouse gas annually from its emissions by 2030.

A long-term research project at Laurentian University is showing promise in using mine tailings to grow crops for biomass.

The Biomass North Development Centre is gaining traction and building momentum as it unrolls its completed Northern Ontario Biomass Strategy (which goes by the cheeky acronym NO-BS).

Columbia Forest Products is reopening its Rutherglen veneer mill, east of North Bay, after a five-year shutdown. Gary Gillespie, vice-president of Columbia’s Northern Operations, announced Dec.

An Ojibway community on the north shore of Lake Superior is carving out a path to prosperity in forestry.

Resolute Forest Products has been fined $150,000 after a worker was burned at its Fort Francis mill in 2014. On Feb.

The City of Dryden lost its appeal to have Domtar pay $7.9 million in unpaid taxes. An Ontario Superior Court has turned down the northwestern Ontario municipality’s request for the local mill to pay taxes and assessment from 2009 to 2012.