Forestry

Within a day of being awarded a provincial wood pellet supply agreement, Thunder Bay' s Ed Fukushima was on the phone negotiating with a manufacturer of pellet press dies.

The Northern Ontario Sustainable Communities Partnership ( NOSCP ) and Algoma University 's Nordik Institute will be hosting a conference in Sault Ste. Marie early next year to advance the concept of community-based forest management across Canada.

Sudbury's Living with Lakes Centre won the Green Building Wood Design Award at the annual Ontario Wood WORKS! gala in Toronto, Nov. 7. J.L. Richards & Associates in association with Perkins + Will were the architects and engineers.

A Kenora utility pole peeling plant will start production this fall. Tannis Romaniuk, Wincrief Forestry Products executive operations manager, said operations began in September with test runs of the pole peeling equipment.

The recent announcement that nine parks in Northern Ontario will be closed for camping has struck a nerve.

Eacom Timber Corp . is rebuilding its Timmins sawmill after a fire destroyed part of the mill in January . “We were left with half a mill,” said Brian Nicks, senior vice-president of forest operations.

Wherever architect David Nelson goes in Kenora , he sees the visible and tangible signs of his talents.

When Lorne Morrow took the job as CEO of the Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio- conomy (CRIBE) in December 2009, it was the bleakest of times in the forestry industry .

A biomass energy plant, offices, residential developments: they’re all options being considered by the new owners of the former St. Marys Paper property in Sault Ste. Marie.

St. Marys Paper in Sault Ste. Marie has secured a purchaser, and approval for the sale of the paper mill will be sought this Thursday, March 22 in a Toronto courtroom. The purchaser is identified as numbered company 2319839 Ontario Inc.