Langley forestry firm acquires Delta's Acorn sawmill from Interfor
Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 21:39:55 +0000
The buyers intends to continue milling specialty timbers for Japanese housing
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Huu-ay-aht First Nation charts own path on old-growth protection
Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 01:10:39 +0000
“For far too long we’ve had people interfering in how we should or shouldn’t be living,” Huu-ay-aht First Nation Chief Councillor Robert Dennis.
Read more$1.2M in funding announced for University of Victoria housing and dining project
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:03:22 +0000
Plans for the province’s mass timber demonstration program include four new projects, which range from multi-unit homes to mixed-use commercial and industrial buildings.
Read moreB.C.'s plan to defer old-growth logging with First Nations reaches 80 per cent of target
Credit to Author: Lisa Cordasco| Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 02:42:07 +0000
The government has reached agreements with 75 First Nations in the past three months to protect 6,190 square kilometres, with new land use plans with several nations.
Read moreB.C. forest industry bracing for impact of old-growth timber crunch
Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:24:34 +0000
Province’s value-added sawmills, coveted in value-over-volume transition, fear they will be hit hardest by shrinking timber harvests
Read moreB.C. government urged not to spray herbicides over fears they will contaminate Indigenous food source
Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:03:51 +0000
Angelina Hopkins Rose, an Indigenous B.C. woman, says B.C. Timber Sales’ five-year plan to spray herbicides from Squamish to Hope will negatively affect Indigenous food and medicine sources.
Read moreB.C. wildfire service to increase prevention work from backyards to forests: official
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 02:23:05 +0000
The funding will be used to help the wildfire service increase its permanent, year-round staffing, allowing it to focus on every aspect of emergency management for wildfires.
Read moreVaughn Palmer: B.C. budget underscores job and revenue losses of old-growth logging deferrals
Credit to Author: Massey Padgham| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 01:33:13 +0000
Opinion: Despite political rhetoric, NDP approach suggests it considered forestry a dying industry
Read moreSecond judge to consider stay application of old-growth logging protesters in B.C.
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:26:28 +0000
Over 1,100 people have been arrested since the injunction against blockades in the Fairy Creek watershed northwest of Victoria was granted last year
Read moreVaughn Palmer: For B.C. forest companies and pension plans, the future is in the U.S.
Credit to Author: Massey Padgham| Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:59:12 +0000
Opinion: Agency that invests public-sector pension funds is following B.C. forestry companies to greener pastures of Texas and Louisiana
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