Sentences with phrase «timber companies»

He argues that allowing timber companies to log forests will reduce the severity of fires.

Are American private timber companies any better than their neighbours in BC?

The four - person company is still largely in the testing phase, but they think they'll be able to start working with environmental groups and timber companies within the next year.

There is growing concern that Siberia's forests, the largest in the world after the Amazon, face plunder by timber companies as Russia looks to increase its exports — a threat made by the Russian delegation at the Earth Summit last June.

While exceeding federal limits on driving hours, a Dunaway Timber Company truck driver lost control of his semi-truck, crossed the centerline on a highway and struck an oncoming semi-truck, killing the driver of the oncoming truck.

The latest in EIA's video series, The»S» Files, Depot Deception shows that Holzindustrie Schweighofer, one of the largest timber companies in Europe, appears to be systematically...

The government is yielding to pressure from timber companies with Chinese and European links, including notorious companies such as Rimbunan Hijau, to reopen the sector.

However, ongoing rapacious illegal logging is squandering this value, as timber companies fail to pay required taxes and exploit the forest at a high and unregulated pace.

For investors wanting a niche ETF, the Claymore / Beacon Global Timber ETF (NYSEArca: CUT) gives investors 18 percent exposure to Finland and Sweden through a handful of timber companies based in the region.

There had been a major backlash against the Tamar Ridge brand in the late 2000s when it was still owned by timber company Gunns, which was in the spotlight over environmental issues in Tasmania related to a proposed pulp mill.

Project partners include four SFI Program Participants: Hancock Timber Resource Group, Lyme Timber Company, LandVest, and Resource Management Service, who will each host a study site.

WHEN Tasmanian forestry products heavyweight Gunns missed out on securing the assets of defunct agribusiness company Timbercorp, those vying for assets of another failed timber company knew they were in trouble.

Long - term investors should consider these timber picks: REITs Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE: WY) Weyerhaeuser is one of America's leading timber companies.

Short sellers have often drawn attention with takedowns like Muddy Waters» allegations of fraud at timber company Sino - Forest, which subsequently filed for bankruptcy in 2012.

Kajir has served as chief executive officer of the Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby and was the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies» large - scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them.

In 1991 Moore was appointed as Director of the British Columbia Forest Alliance which was described by O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, as «a Burson - Marsteller created group, bankrolled by large timber companies,» which «is waging a PR war with environmentalists upset with the logging of rainforests in western Canada.»

That's what happens when timber companies get to do as they please.

Ari Levy, manager of TD Asset Management's resource fund, says eastern timber companies aren't the same as western ones.

Filed by Protect the Adirondacks and Adirondack Wild, the lawsuit claims the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation broke state law in approving plans for former timber company land centered around the Essex Chain of Lakes between Indian Lake and Newcomb in Essex and Hamilton counties.

A team of Police from the Brong Ahafo Region has rescued the Municipal Chief Executive of Asunafo North and management members of the Ayum Timber Company who were held hostage for over six hours Tuesday.

Timber companies pay GH cents 25 as...

But the economic implications are clear to him: Timber companies probably can't do the job because good thinning is not profitable.

The biggest single fine was # 1.78 million, which was slapped on the J. Ferreira timber company in Pará, northern Brazil.

ÊExploitative timber companies are equally destructive.

Daniel McGowan, an ELF member, faces life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies.

I commented about the current cashflow issues of a lot of the farming companies, but I'm sure I'll be investing again in some of them — meanwhile, I get to bail out of Black Earth by making a 1 minute call to my broker, and the proceeds now allow me to contemplate a listed timber company investment instead at a huge discount...

Land Development Minister James Masing blamed unscrupulous timber companies and said that whoever caused the problem should be punished.

And, as the film chronicles, a number of those embittered tree - sitters went on to become part of the Earth Liberation Front — a radical group responsible for scores of arsons targeting timber companies, horse slaughterhouses, SUV dealerships, and a $ 12 - million ski lodge in Vail, Colo..

Timber companies here and abroad typically have political influence far greater than their economic contributions would justify.

Finnish timber companies go on sharing their experience and the best practice on implementing efficient and sustainable forestry with Russia...

Samartex Timber & Plywood Ltd — a leading socially responsible timber company founded in 1995 in Ghana and managing 150,308 ha of tropical forests.

A third timber company, the Swiss - German Danzer Group, has a subsidiary which has been repeatedly involved in conflicts with local communities resulting in human rights abuses, including allegations of rapes and beatings by state forces, yet the Danzer Group continues to enjoy membership to the scheme.

Ouch said after timber companies take the trees they want, they raze the remaining forest with bulldozers and burn the land to clear it for industrial agriculture and projects.

Alarmed by their bad press, Canadian timber companies announced in May this year that they would work with greens to improve the management of 72m hectares of boreal forest.

Leng Ouch has risked his life to go undercover and gather evidence of collusion between timber companies and government officials.

Another key critic of SFI is Sierra Club, which in 2009 filed a complaint against SFI - certified timber company Weyerhaeuser for conducting irresponsible logging on extremely steep and unstable slopes — actions that resulted in massive landslides and extensive damage to public and private property.

As highlighted in recent letters to the United Nations by numerous international organisations (viii), the timber industry and shipping and corporate registries threaten both global environmental damage, and with regard to many Liberian timber companies, are actively engaged in financing human rights abusing militias and illegal arms transfers.

Leading businesses in the building materials sector — including semi-state timber company Coillte and insulation manufacturer Kingspan — have declared their support for plans by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to make the passive house standard mandatory for new buildings.

As timber companies move into Central Africa's forests, apes increasingly have to find ways to survive in the altered forests they call home.

Global Witness welcome today's European Parliamentary committee vote requiring that EU oil, gas, mining and timber companies publish their payments to governments to help deter corruption.

Now, Straumann believes the maps will help the Penan demonstrate the extent and importance of their territory as timber companies march closer.

EIA Investigators found clear cases of illegal logging, linked to the Austrian Timber company Holzindustrie Schweighofer, in Romania's Rodna Mountains National Park

The observers found that the actual exports greatly exceeded official reports — and that arms shipments were being unloaded at the ports by timber company workers.

Logging to Stop Immediately on Area the Size of MontanaIn a historic agreement, 20 major timber companies and 9 environmental groups agreed on a plan to protect 170 million acres of boreal forest in Canada.

In a major victory for the Australian environmental movement, Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited announced on Thursday that it will no longer engage in native forest logging.

Frauds included the sale of permits known as «Authorizations to Transport Forest Products» to 431 ghost timber companies.

In Malaysian Borneo, 276 Iban families from 15 longhouses are suing timber companies and the government for pollution, trespassing and illegal logging on their land.

Complaint accuses international timber company DLH of trading illegal timber and funding Liberian war