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Latest EIA Bioenergy Forecast: North America Heating Wood Pellets
The US Energy Information Administration recently released its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), forecasting a decline in electricity usage this year. Total US electric power generation is anticipated to drop by 3 per cent in 2020, mostly in the form of fossil-fuel energy production. The report forecasts a 20 per cent decline in coal-fired power…
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Madison’s North America Lumber and Sawmill Update: Jan 2020
Western US sawmills production of softwood lumber down -2.3 percent in January 2020 Western US sawmills produced 1.245 bbf of softwood lumber in January, down -2.3 percent from January 2019 when output was 1.275 bbf, but up +10 percent compared with December 2019’s 1.132 bbf, according to the Western Wood Products Association (WWPA) Coastal mills…
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Softwood Lumber Prices Bounce Off Lows of Two Weeks Ago
As Madison’s said in mid-April, “only in the future will we know” if North America construction framing dimension softwood lumber prices reached the bottom, or if they would fall further. Given the wee surge last week, we now know that prices have bounced from those lows of two weeks ago. Whether they will remain there…
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UBC Forestry professor receives ‘Nobel Prize of Forest Research’
Marcus Wallenberg Prize supports research on how forests respond to climate change VISUALS LINK FOR MEDIA USE The Faculty of Forestry at University of British Columbia has announced faculty member and Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing (I), Nicholas Coops, is the recipient of the world’s most prestigious forestry honour, the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.With this distinction, UBC…
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Softwood Lumber Prices Fall More Slowly or Remain Steady
In contrast to the sharp plummets of recent weeks, most North American construction framing dimension softwood lumber prices either remained steady or dropped by smaller increments last week as distributors had decent demand from end-users. Supply remained limited to tight, and sawmills held firm on price lists from the previous week as their order files…
