by Web Editor | Jul 18, 2014 | News
The WorkSafeBC Review and Action Plan released today by the B.C. government fails to restore confidence in the agency’s ability to keep workers safe, says the United Steelworkers (USW). “In the aftermath of the horrific explosions in Burns Lake and Prince...
by Web Editor | Jul 14, 2014 | News
The Emerald Ash Borer is likely to kill 99 percent of the U.S. ash wood trees, says the U.S. Forest Service. Hopes that the super cold winter might kill or at least slow the insects have proved unfounded. Quarantines of infested areas have now spread to 22 states as...
by Web Editor | Jan 31, 2014 | News
B.C. forest companies face new, prescriptive regulations that define how much sawdust can settle in a wood-products plant before it is considered a hazard, almost two years after the deaths of four workers in sawmill explosions. The new regime has been rolled out in...
by Web Editor | Dec 6, 2013 | News
Canadian Sawmill Equipment And Engineering Company Expands Into U.S. The BID Group of Companies, started two generations ago in Vanderhoof, has grown to be a conglomerate of companies still based primarily in the hometown of the founding Fehr family, although it also...
by Web Editor | Apr 1, 2013 | News
A sawmill in Prince George, British Columbia will be reconstructed on the same site after being destroyed by an explosion and fire that killed two people last year. “April 23, 2012 was the worst day in our company’s history, and it began a year of challenge and sorrow...