Update: Provincial officials and Unifor have joined COFI in calling for urgent B.C. forestry-sector intervention in response to the Howe Sound idling (Paper Advance)
Forestry & Timber
Ottawa announced a C$7.5B tariff-support package on Aug 25 — including C$1.5B for the Regional Tariff Response Initiative, C$500M in BDC liquidity for forestry/steel/aluminum, and C$2B for a diversification fund; FPAC welcomed it but warned aid must reach tariff-hit forest companies quickly, noting combined U.S. tariffs on Canadian forest products now run 25–85% (Paper Advance, Canadian Biomass)
Europe's timber surplus is deepening as storm- and wildfire-damaged wood floods the market, compounding weak demand (Timber Industry News)
U.S. tariffs are accelerating a shift in Brazilian timber trade as American buyers pull back (Timber Industry News)
A new retrospective notes B.C. has lost more than 30 sawmills over the past decade of lumber-industry decline (Timber Industry News)
Wood Pellets
Allegany County, NY earned the state's first BDO Zone 'A' rating for woody biomass — certifying 300,000 bone-dry tonnes/year within 75 miles of Belmont, a siting signal for pellet/biomass projects (Bioenergy Insight)
