by Working Forest | Nov 30, 2017 | Archive Articles, Articles
Hornepayne Lumber and Hornepayne Power are receiving a $4 million equity investment from an alliance of three First Nation communities in northeastern Ontario. The investment group, Northeast Superior First Nation Investment LP, is taking a 30 per cent ownership stake...
by Working Forest | Nov 30, 2017 | Archive Articles, Articles
SARNIA, Ont. – A building block for the support of early-stage Canadian bioeconomy and cleantech companies has been announced by Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC). BIC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with each of five key venture capital firms...
by Working Forest | Nov 9, 2017 | Archive Articles, Articles
The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities and Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association are defending the work of the provincial government and the forest industry in response to claims by environmental activist groups that Ontario has not acted to protect...
by Working Forest | Jul 12, 2017 | Archive Articles, Articles
Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve has one of the few sawmills still operating in Haliburton County, Ont., but at the turn of the 20th century it would have been one of dozens of similar operations. The mill produces about 20,000 board feet of lumber per day –...
by Working Forest | Jul 10, 2017 | Archive Articles, Articles
The Sultan Industrial Road is a logging road near Chapleau, ON, frequently taken by people wanting to save as much as an hour off an east-west trip between Highways 144 and 129. Northern Ontario mayors for decades have lobbied for the Sultan Road to become a...