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EDMONTON - Canada’s forestry industry has been under the gun this decade, facing devastating beetle damage, softwood-lumber tariff battles with the U.S. and attention from environmental groups over logging practices and pollution. In Alberta, mills have to compete with the higher wages paid by...

«Russian Pellet» company was established in order to implement the investment project aimed at creation of the state-of-the-art production with the rated output of up to 32.4 tsnd tons of pellets per year. According to the project one of the major plants in the Volga Region will satisfy the...

(Reuters) - Norway urged rich nations on Thursday to take risks and pay to slow deforestation in poor countries, saying there would hardly be a tree left in Congo if donors first wait for corruption to be eradicated.

BRUSSELS — There will be no binding deal on emissions at this year's UN climate summit as the South African hosts and other economic powers are simply "not ready," the United States and Europe said on Wednesday. "It is not a necessary thing to have right away," top US climate official Todd...

A report by the Times of India earlier this month that an Indian company, Vaitarna Holdings, controlled 1.82M acres of Guyanese forest deservedly captured media scrutiny here.

The Finnish company Stora Enso Oyj will decide upon the construction of Pulp-and-Paper-Mill (PPM) in the Nizhny Novgorod Region by the end of 2011, announced Valery Shantsev, the Governor of the region.

For more than a century, British Columbia's forests have been the cornerstone of the province's economy. At 60 million hectares, equivalent to 148,000 Stanley Parks, the province's publicly-owned forests are a vast and valuable asset, sustaining rural and first nations communities, providing...

Landowners in Emanuel County who grow timber expect that, with time, those trees will be cut, the logs sold, processed, and used for building, paper products or energy.  In 1936, there were 21.4 million acres of forestland in Georgia and, in 2004, 24.8 million acres.  To borrow a phrase from the...

Silvia Ribeiro is a researcher with ETCgroup; this was translated from her article in La Jornada, 23 Apr 2011.  Source: http://mecteam.blogspot.com