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Island Wood Industries Forum
It’s time for industry stakeholders to come together and pursue 21st-century solutions.
Hosted by the Tseshaht First Nation, VIEA’s third Island Wood Industries Forum’ will be held on October 12, 8:30am to 4:30pm at the Alberni Athletic Centre.
There’s a lot to consider!
- VIEA will share data from its recent Waste Wood Recovery pilot project with the K’omoks and Qualicum First Nations – Cindy Stern of Stern Sustainable Solutions, Graham Sakaki of VIU’s Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Research Institute, and Guy Wright, Natural Resources Manager with K’omoks Economic Development Corporation;
- The BC government has recently released its modernization plan for BC Forest Policy, a ministry representative will speak to details of this plan;
- Chief Robert Dennis of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation and Shannon Janzen, VP and Chief Forester with Western Forest Products will share their stories from the path towards Economic Reconciliation in the forest sector;
- And, we’ll share news of several new ventures and initiatives.
The complete Island Wood Industries Forum agenda is under construction. Watch for updates…
This is an opportunity for industry stakeholders to come together and consider these and other issues and opportunities important to the industry. We welcome you to join the conversation!
The Island Wood Industries Forum is of particular interest to anyone directly involved in forestry and wood manufacturing. Previous forums (2018 & 2019) have focused on issues and opportunities associated with access to fibre, innovative manufacturing, government policy, and business cases for attracting investment to new value-added wood products. Previous agendas have focused on issues and opportunities associated with access to fibre, fire hazard mitigation, waste wood data analysis, changes in government policy and the Coastal Forest Recovery Program.
This forum follows years of work by VIEA to help solve the problem of access to fibre that continues to inhibit diversification of value-added wood manufacturing on Vancouver Island.
Thanks to Inland, MNP, San Group, TFL44 LP and Western Forest Products for sponsoring the Island Wood Industries Forum.
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