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Issue date: 
10th December 2009

Sappi to close Finnish paper mill in early 2010

Paper and pulp producer Sappi’s Finnish subsidiary, Finland I Oy, announced on Thursday that it would permanently close its 137-year-old 210 000-t/y Kangas paper mill by early 2010.

In October, the subsidiary reported that it could close the mill, which employed about 150 people, owing to an overcapacity of coated magazine paper in Europe.

Issue date: 
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Trading Trees - The Promotional Film

A quiet revolution in forests offers hope to the human race.

A documentary about how small-scale carbon trading projects around the developing world are saving forests. The mechanism of forestry carbon trading is dynamically explained, especially how it works on the ground today, how it needs to be made better, and how it is already uplifting communities, stopping forest destruction, and the role new legislation will play in it's evolution.

Issue date: 
January 18, 2010 09:47 AM

Coal Exploitation Threatens Ecology In East Kalimantan

SAMARINDA, Jan 18 (Bernama) -- Business oriented coal exploitations in East Kalimantan are threatening the local ecology, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported, citing environment observer Abrianto Amin as saying here on Sunday.

"Ecological balance will be seriously threatened if coal exploitations are exclusively oriented to commercial aspects, and the social and environmental sectors are ignored," he stressed.

Issue date: 
January 19, 2010

Wood Pellet Production Outstrips Demand in 2009; Drives Sawdust and Residue Chip Prices Lower

Demand for wood pellets in 2009 was well below both manufacturing capacity and production levels. As a result, prices for sawdust and residual chips (the raw materials used by pellet manufacturers) in the Pacific Northwest moved off their 2008 highs, reports Forest2Market, the premier provider of market data and information about the wood supply chain.

Issue date: 
Jan 19, 2010

White River Forest Products is eager to start up in 2010

White River Forest Products is eager to start up the former Domtar sawmill in White River, Ontario in 2010.

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Jän. 18, 2010

In China, environmental change we can believe in?

BEDFORD, MA, Jän. 18, 2010 (RISI) - Actual consumption of wood pulp in China remains on a robust upward trend.

EU lawmakers on watch for illegal timber

European Parliament adopts rules to keep illegal timber off the EU market

Apr 27, 2009: Stricter rules on timber sold in the EU are needed to combat illegal logging - the main cause of deforestation - says a legislative report by Caroline Lucas (Greens/EFA, UK) adopted by the European Parliament. All the operators in the timber supply chain must prove the legality of their timber and illegal timber suppliers must pay penalties that reflect the degree of environmental and economic damage, it added. The report was adopted on 22 April (465 for, 22 against, 187 abstentions). EU rules need to be more effective, as 20% to 40% of global industrial wood production is from illegal sources, stresses the European Parliament, which wants to toughen the proposed legislation to ensure that illegally harvested timber and timber products are removed from the EU market, through a concrete system of traceability and monitoring.

European Parliament press release

EurActiv EU Parliament backs crackdown on illegal logging

Issue date: 
Thursday, 14 January 2010

Bioenergy important to forestry’s future

Bioenergy is going to play a central role in the transformation of the forest sector, although the fledgling industry is not by itself sufficient to ensure the sector is attractive to investors, forest industry analyst Don Roberts said Thursday.
The sector will increasingly need to look at how it can produce more products out of the timber it harvests, including bio-chemicals, Roberts told the seventh annual B.C. Natural Resources Forum.

Issue date: 
July 11, 2008

Australian Woochip prices going up the roof

Higher Wood Chip Export Prices in Australia in 2008 as Wood Supply Tightens Around the Pacific Rim

Issue date: 
April 3, 2008

All time high for Canadian/US woodchip prices

Export Prices for Wood Chips from Canada and the US to Japan Reach 13 Year High in 2008

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