Tasmania’s Tarkine region is heralded by land rights activists for its high environmental and cultural value, however, the area also holds value to industries with the power to make or break the state government’s bottom line. Source: The Advocate Government Business Enterprise Forest

The Finkel Report’s recommendation of a Clean Energy Target (CET) creates an opportunity for Australia to embrace renewable energy from wood waste as part of our clean energy mix, with the potential to provide baseload electricity and help meet Australia’s emissions reduction target,

Canadian developer PortLiving is set to build a 19-storey mixed-use residential project that will be Vancouver’s tallest hybrid timber tower. Source: The Fifth Estate The Terrace House project has been designed by Shigeru Ban Architects, the first Canadian project for the Pritzker Pri

The South Australian division of Australian Executor Trustees is being sued for $55 million over claims it mismanaged a forestry investment scheme. Source: The Advertiser Australian Executor Trustees (SA) is facing a $55 million lawsuit over management of Auspine forestry assets Litig

A mediator has been appointed to avoid a bitter legal dispute over alleged unfair contracts in the regional timber industry. Source: ABC Rural News Timber processor Hurford’s Hardwood employs more than 260 staff, including 100 on the north coast of New South Wales. Hurford direc

The Victorian Government has increased its timber supply offer to the embattled Heyfield mill, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. Source: Herald Sun The timber mill is now being offered 80cu m a year of timber from the Gippsland forest over the next three years, an overall increase of

The Terang economy is set to be boosted with the return of a timber yard to the town. Alliance Timber is now operating out of the old McVilly Timber yard. Source: The Standard Dean Montgomery and Aaron Keating are the directors of Alliance Timber while Anthony Westwick will manage the

Dieback of pine needles on a pine plantation near the top of the Pahiatua Track prompted Pahiatua resident Ross Cotter to ask the Bush Telegraph why the trees are dying. Source: New Zealand Herald Pahiatua arborist Kevin Nicholson observed the dieback three years ago. “It’