Forestry

It won’t be a Merry Christmas in Iroquois Falls. Resolute Forest Products is permanently closing its Iroquois Falls newsprint mill as part of a company-wide plan to cut 465,000 tonnes of newsprint capacity.

While Whitesand First Nation’s long-running renewable energy project is still pending final approval from the province, there’s no shortage of suitors according to David Mackett, community development officer for the northwestern Ontario community.

A Crown forest management corporation has obtained chain of custody certification for the Big Pic Forest in northwestern Ontario.

Five years after it was mothballed, EACOM’s sawmill in Ear Falls in northwestern Ontario fired up for production in early August. “Now is the time to start producing some wood,” said general manager Harrison Wicks.

Mat Leitch is applying some mining industry-like analytics to determine the real value of the wood resource base in northwestern Ontario.

Budding wood pellet producer Rentech Inc. is counting on a new Quebec City marine terminal to be an important logistical cornerstone of its Wawa operation.

Shuniah Forest Products of Thunder Bay was named a two-time winner at the Workplace Safety North awards dinner and annual general meeting held in North Bay, Sept. 17.

A shuttered former Tembec sawmill in Mattawa has been sold to a southern Ontario green-tech startup company.

The provincial government and Ontario Power Generation announced Sept. 10 that the former coal-burning Atikokan Generating Station is now producing electricity using wood pellet fuel.

Unifor has reached a long-term contract with Kenora Forests Products to restart sawmill operations by the beginning of 2015.