Forestry
Blount Canada fined $60,000 for injury during training
Worker suffered burns to the abdomen and legs from a bla1st of steam and hot water.
Steelworkers and Canfor reach tentative deal
Five-year deal boosts pay, adjusts trades rates, improves health benefits and includes provisions to secure the USW’s pension plan.
Fortress Paper says Chinese duties will harm Canada's pulp sector
Fortress, Tembec and two other Canadian producers are currently paying a 13% levy to supply China.
Clark meets with northern leaders about LNG revenue sharing
Revenue sharing deal discussed involving LNG development in the north.
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Canadians’ average salary increase for 2014 is 2.6%
Hay survey of top employers shows oil and gas, chemicals will pay the most.
Facing industrial pressures, Canada needs to up forest conservation game
Almost 15% of Canada’s Boreal forest has been distributed to oil and gas, mining, forestry and hydro development.
New Brunswick’s export growth modest through 2014, says EDC
Brazil tops the list of emerging market destinations, followed by China, India and Turkey.
Tembec’s Q2 losses double to $26M; Temiscaming costs up
Company says the cost to upgrade its specialty cellulose mill in Quebec has jumped by 24%.
Chinese could shift energy investments to forestry, mining
Canadian mining exports to China have eclipsed total exports to Germany.
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Exports to grow 5% this year and 6% more in 2013: EDC
A 97-cent loonie in 2013 offers exporters a bit of a reprieve.
NS deal to help restart a NewPage paper mill approved, but under scrutiny
Canadian Taxpayers Federation calls it “tax trickery,” and too expensive.
$13.7B in ‘corporate welfare’ since 1982: Fraser Institute
No payment expected by Industry Canada for nearly half.
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Idled Cape Breton mill gets $1.5 million court approved cash injection
Money for NewPage’s Port Hawkesbury mill comes from a $15.8-million provincial fund to keep the mill in a so-called hot idle mode.
NewPage gets $124.5M from Nova Scotia to reopen paper mill
Pacific West Commercial expects to inject $160 million into the local economy during its first year.
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Cut more timber to fight pine beetle: BC report
70% of Central Interior’s marketable timber decimated by 2021 if action not taken.
