Canadian MPs call on Paper Excellence owner to testify on links to Asia Pulp and Paper. In related news: West Fraser to temporarily curtail Quesnel sawmill; Deadwood Innovations secures investment in Fort St. James; ENGOs protest Drax subsidies in the UK; tariffs are a lose/lose deal for softwood lumber; and CPKC remains optimistic despite Trump’s threat. Meanwhile: with Bob Brash’s pending departure, the Truck Loggers Association is looking an Executive Director.
In Forestry/Climate news: Canadian fire chiefs say wildfire resources are inadequate; a Quebec First Nation seeks caribou protections; Tasmanian green groups abandon native forest industry; UN court to clarify country obligations on climate change; and scientists question the fungibility of carbon markets.
Finally, a German study questions tree-to-tree nutrient sharing via fungi.
Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor
The Truck Loggers Association (TLA) is an advocacy organization seeking a dynamic and visionary executive director to lead our organization in lobbying government for fair policies to meet the needs of our members. The executive director will play a key role in shaping the future of the association by effectively influencing policymakers, ensuring membership growth, and advancing the interests of forest dependent contractors, suppliers and communities who depend on a sustainable forest industry. The executive director is responsible for executing effective advocacy, delivering strategic leadership, and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Truck Loggers Association including member services, communications, and financial management. This individual will work closely with the Board of Directors, staff, and key stakeholders to further the TLA’s mission and vision. This is a full-time permanent position. This is a remote-work position requiring regular travel to meetings and events throughout the province.
When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would immediately put tariffs on all goods being imported from Canada, Mexico, and China, people sat up and paid attention. Not just politicians but the general populations of the countries involved, even Americans. …A tariff is a tax or import duty placed by one country on imports from another country or countries. It effectively raises the cost of bringing foreign goods into a country and is usually used as a form of political leverage, a form of increasing revenues or to protect domestic industries by the importing country. Perhaps the best-known tariff currently in place against Canada is the softwood lumber tariff. …This added cost to our lumber makes it more expensive to U.S. buyers than a U.S.-produced product. …A tariff is a lose/lose deal.
TORONTO
The scientific evidence behind glyphosate’s dangers is overwhelming—and infuriating. Glyphosate doesn’t stop at the plants it’s meant to kill. It contaminates everything in its path, infiltrating the food chain and leaving behind a legacy of harm… Even if Ontario banned glyphosate tomorrow, the chemical’s impact would linger for years. It persists in the soil, where it continues to harm microorganisms and plants. The forests we love may take decades to recover, and some ecosystems may never fully return to their original state. This isn’t just a fight for today; it’s a fight for the future. Quebec has already banned glyphosate in forestry. European countries like Austria and Germany are phasing it out. These regions recognize that short-term convenience isn’t worth long-term destruction. So why is Ontario still clinging to outdated, harmful practices?
HOBART, Tasmania — In news that surprises no-one, a coalition of formerly ‘moderate’ green groups have renounced their apparent prior support for native forestry. Under the 
Most of the world’s airlines are not doing enough to switch to sustainable jet fuel, according to a study, by Brussels-based advocacy group Transport and Environment, which also found too little investment by oil producers in the transition. The airline sector is calling for more production of the fuel, which can be made from materials such as wood chips and used cooking oil… As it stands, SAF makes up about 1% of aviation fuel use on the global market, which needs to increase for airlines to meet carbon emission reduction targets. The fuel can cost between two to five times more than regular jet fuel. A lack of investment by major oil players, who have the capital to build SAF processing facilities, is hampering the market’s growth, the study says.
Diplomats agreed earlier this month to new rules governing carbon credits. But while they were deliberating, the scientists who defined “net zero” in 2009, found something wrong with the math underlying those debates. “Achieving ‘net zero’ no longer means what we meant by it,” said Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at University of Oxford, an author of a new paper in the journal Nature. Their new analysis skewers an assumption at the heart of how countries and companies track emissions — that a ton of CO2 is the same everywhere, whether it’s dispersed in the atmosphere, embedded in forest wood or pulled from the air and pumped deep underground. That fungibility is the foundation of carbon markets. It lets a ton of CO2 in a forest stand as a fair trade for a ton put in the atmosphere. That rule-of-thumb turns out to be a vast oversimplification that could render many well-meaning net-zero efforts meaningless.