Forestry

Montreal’s Resolute Forest Products are delighted with employee support for the renewal of collective agreements in Canada.

A new frontrunner has emerged as a potential purchaser of the former Marathon Pulp mill in northwestern Ontario. Reliance Developments Corporation has signed a letter of intent with Tembec to acquire the shuttered mill and its lakeside property.

The Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA) intends to make an election issue out of the Wynne government’s decision to make drastic cuts to a Crown forest roads funding program.

Montreal’s Resolute Forest Products made a not-so-shocking decision this week to permanently close its mothballed Fort Frances pulp and paper mill.

The Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA) is congratulating Thunder Bay -Atikokan MPP Bill Mauro on his cabinet appointment as the new minister of municipal affairs.

The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is supporting the free trade agreement reached between Canada and Korea.

A Thunder Bay natural resource consulting firm is taking to the skies with the purchase of its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for aerial imaging and mapping applications.

The potential American buyers of the former Marathon Pulp mill have missed a critical deadline to close the sale of the contaminated property from Tembec. A final Jan.

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.