Forestry

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

Managing a forest involves much more than planting trees. Various users, ranging from commercial to recreational, have to be considered along with the flora and fauna.

A failure to secure a wood allocation from the province has delayed plans for a wood pellet plant near Mattawa. BioSila purchased the former Tembec facility in September last year from the Mattawa-Bonfield Economic Development Corp.

The woodland caribou is becoming as controversial as it is elusive since provincial conservation plans for the species may result in drastic reductions of wood supply in the Abitibi River Forest.

The president and CEO of Eacom Timber Corp. said his company will withhold making any major investments in its recently-acquired Northern Ontario sawmills until there is a change in Ontario's forest policy.

The president and CEO of Eacom Timber Corp. said his company will withhold making any major investments in its recently-acquired Northern Ontario sawmills until there is a change in Ontario's forest policy.

Ignace may regain its moniker as a forestry town with AbitibiBowater poised to reopen a shuttered sawmill.