Forestry

There is new optimism in Marathon this week, following the creation of the Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation, the first pilot project to be established under the province's overhauled forest tenure system.

Marathon mayor Rick Dumas is not happy with the Ontario province following a decision to transfer the area's wood allocation to a proposed jet fuel refinery project in nearby community.

Community and industry rancor continues to build against the McGuinty government over the refusal to stage a final round of consultation meetings in Northern Ontario before a new forestry bill is passed into law.

A Thunder Bay businessman has received the first allotment of Crown fibre in the province's wood supply competition.

The Canadian Wood Council wants Ontario wood used in the framing of mid-rise buildings.

Bryan Tardiff had high hopes that his company's biomass wood pellet plant would create hundreds of wood harvesting and manufacturing jobs in northwestern Ontario.

A Toronto biofuel company has innovative plans to use Northern Ontario woody biomass to make a specialty pellet that European power producers may be eager to snap up.

Some small forestry-related companies are banding together to make a case to the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) to offer greater incentives to get the bio-economy off the ground.

The foundation has been laid for the Town of Hearst to attract clean technology companies and expand the community’s forest-reliant economic base.

The mayor of Marathon is calling out Queen's Park over its glacial bureaucratic pace in awarding unused Crown fibre to Northern Ontario communities and companies.