Forestry

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.

A Thunder Bay entrepreneur expects to have contracts in hand by early spring to start exporting wood pellets to major European customers.

Tom Logan can't sell from an empty fibre basket.

The town of Iroquois Falls was happy to learn that Resolute Forest Products (the former AbitibiBowater) is investing $12 milllion to $17 million in the thermomechanical pulp mill. “This is certainly good news for the town,” said Mayor Gilles Forget.

Wikwemikong has secured $2.4 million worth of forest management contracts