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Canada Lumber Exports
Canadian softwood lumber exports to the USA in 2Q 2014 increased year on year by 11.5 per cent, to 3.213 billion board feet (or roughly 7.58 million cubic metres), said Canada’s Softwood Lumber Controls Division this week. As they had in 1Q, producers from Québec expanded exports by roughly 33 per cent, to 497.36 million…
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New Brunswick Forestry Deal Disputed
New Brunswick Premier David Alward said Tuesday a controversial forestry agreement with J.D. Irving should be finalized before the provincial election campaign begins next week, according to CBC. The government signed an initial deal with the company earlier in the year and a final agreement was expected to be in place by July 1. The…
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Kenora Forest Products to Reopen Sawmill
Unifor has reached a long-term contract with Kenora Forests Products in Kenora, ON, to re-start sawmill operations there by the beginning of 2015, according to the labour union’s press release Thursday. The new deal also will facilitate millions of dollars in capital investment for modernizing the mill and installing an additional saw line for expanded…
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Terrace Log Storage Yard Cleared Out
A Chinese-owned forest company has now moved all of its logs from a city-of-Terrace-owned property and has cleared the site in northern BC, according to the Terrace Standard Tuesday. YaoRun Wood Company began leasing the approximately 20 acres from the city in early 2013 for $10,000 a month, storing logs there until they could be…
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China Earthquake Rebuilding
An earthquake in China Sunday, of 6.1-magnitude, in a mountainous farming region of Yunnan province has killed 615 people as of Thursday with another 114 missing. This follows the devastating 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province, of 7.8-magnitude, when more than 69,000 people died and more than 18,000 remain missing. Almost 5 million people were made…
