The Professor and Forest Renewal BC Chair in Conservation at UBC’s Faculty of Forestry is offering to help make a made-in-Cowichan plan for the North Cowichan forest reserve. chief executive Keith Creel called the investigation‘s abrupt launch “irresponsible.” …Derek Nighbor, head of the Forest Products Association of Canada, warned the railways this week against playing “commodity whack-a-mole.” He said the embargoes cost the pulp and paper industry $500 million in contract penalties, shipping charges, rebooked routes and storage costs.
…In a statement last week, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. …the report is part of a CTA investigation … following complaints from shipping associations about rail service in B.C.‘s Lower Mainland over the past three months. Industry groups have accused Canada‘s two largest rail companies of “discriminatory treatment” against some commodities, the report notes, highlighting the use of embargoes that temporarily stop traffic at specific loading points or interchanges. A preliminary report from the Canadian Transportation Agency appears to confirm shippers‘ complaints about a relatively high number of restrictions on commodities they tried to move by rail through the Vancouver area.
