Ontario Invites Proposals For Wood Supply
Ontario, Canada Launches Wood Supply Competition To Spur Investment And Job Creation
TORONTO - Ontario, Canada is searching for innovative ways to use logs, branches and other wood in Crown forests for manufacturing or other commercial purposes. This will help create green jobs and new investment in the forest industry.Proposals are currently being accepted for the use of about 11 million cubic metres of wood. This competitive process is open to anyone - including existing and new forest companies - interested in using Crown wood supply and investing in Ontario.
Proposals will be evaluated on a number of criteria, including fostering effective, cooperative relationships between industry and Aboriginal communities.
”This government is putting Ontario’s wood to work to create jobs and generate wealth for Ontario when we need it the most. We are taking firm actions to ensure Ontarians get the maximum benefits from our forests,” said Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry.
QUICK FACTS
- Proposals must be submitted by March 4, 2010.
- This wood supply competitive process is the second stage of Ontario’s Staged Competition for Crown Wood Supply. It includes about one third of the existing wood supply identified in Forest Management Plans.
- Forests cover almost 60 per cent of Ontario, and 90 per cent of forested lands are provincially owned and known as Crown lands.
LEARN MORE
- Read more about the Provincial Wood Supply Competitive Process: http://www.mndmf.gov.on.ca/forestry/crownwood/Default_e.asp
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