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LiDAR
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or vehicles (UAV) at an accessible price are ready to take off for the surveying and geospatial professions. Of particular interest to forest operators, UAVs are very useful for forest surveys. For example, digital surface models and orthophotos can be created from UAV images of regrowth areas within a cutblock. Height…
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Canada Invests in Lumber Exports to India
The federal government is investing an additional $600,000 to spur efforts to boost lumber exports to India, a potentially large market that’s home to about 1.2 billion people. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver announced Wednesday the funding to Forest Innovation Investment India (FII India). Ottawa has already provided $1.6 million to FII India, which is…
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Carrier Layoffs
Operations at Carrier Forest Products near Prince Albert, SK, are to cease entirely later in January, the Alberta government announced Friday. The remaining 12 workers have been issued layoff notices. According to Shane Vermette with the Alberta Ministry of Economy, all workers at the Prince Albert sawmill have been offered jobs at Carrier’s Big River,…
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Biomass Fuel Production
A microorganism first found in the Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia in 1990 may be a key to more efficient cellulosic biofuel production, said DomesticFuel.com January 6. The microoorganism can digest cellulose almost twice as fast as the current leading component cellulase enzyme on the market, according to researchers at the…
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Sawmill Accident Ruled Not Criminal
No criminal or regulatory charges will be laid in connection with an explosion and fire that killed two workers at a Burns Lake, BC, sawmill in January 2012. The Criminal Justice Branch said Friday that based on the evidence provided by WorkSafeBC there is no substantial likelihood of conviction against the Babine Forest Products sawmill.…
