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Sawmill Fires
At least 30 firefighters from Maple Ridge and Mission, British Columbia, worked through Saturday night and into Sunday morning fighting a fire that consumed at least half of Whonnock cedar mill’s main building at 27400 Lougheed Highway. It could be a few months, at least, before Fraser Cedar Products’ shake and shingle operation is back…
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Coldstream Lumber Operating
Operations at Coldstream Lumber, based in Coldstream, BC, are back up and running nearly a week after a fire ripped through the company’s kiln building. The 40 employees were back at work Monday, said GlobalNews. Both of the company’s kilns were destroyed in the fire. Coldstream Lumber president, Johnal Lee new kilns were purchased, but…
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British Columbia Logs Seized
YaoRun Wood, a Chinese log export company that has been dealing millions of dollars of wood out of Terrace, BC, has had its log piles seized for a third time in under a year due to suspicion it is altering log marks, according to Terrace Standard Tuesday. Previous seizures took place because YaoRun had fallen…
