Jobs arise from ashes of Finland forestry
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KUUSANKOSKI, Finland  - When Finland's UPM-Kymmene bowed to tough market conditions and shut its Voikkaa paper plant two years ago, Raimo Loytty readily swapped a 30-year career in the mill for a stone mason's chisel.
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By Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 3--Thomas Wood, owner of a now-defunct Chugiak auto repair shop, thought he would get rid of his waste oil and chemicals on the cheap by paying a couple of young men who apparently wanted the stuff to set fires at Jim Creek.
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By Diana Bowley, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 20--A back draft from a wood-fired boiler caused dust to ignite early Monday at the Vic Firth Manufacturing Corp. plant in Newport.
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Russia will attempt to reduce unprocessed timber exports in the near future, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said at the 2nd Russian-Finnish Timber Summit in Helsinki.
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The Scandinavian nation spends a lot in R&#38;D, which has kept them buoyant. Next: Finland wants to move into clean tech.
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Finland plans to sell as much as 1.37 billion euros ($1.83 billion) worth of shares in TeliaSonera AB, the Nordic region s largest phone company, as part of the country s program of stock sales to reduce debt.
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By Caroline Roberts  If you're looking for a green career, forestry could be for you. With the environment and global warming high on the political agenda, public funding has been pouring into tree planting, and that means more jobs in the sector.
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A FARMER may be ordered to replant a small forest after chopping down the trees to use as firewood.   Alan Whiteford felled more than half of the young wood before forestry officials caught him.
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, scientists have found that logging big dead trees after a wildfire and planting young ones makes future fires worse, at least for the first 10 or 20 years while the young trees create a volatile new source of fuel.
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But to Christmas tree farmers like the owners of Butler Tree Farm in Dowagiac and Pinecrest Farms in Galien, it&#39;s much, much more.
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When Finland's UPM-Kymmene  bowed to tough market conditions and shut its Voikkaa paper  plant two years ago, Raimo Loytty readily swapped a 30-year  career in the mill for a stone mason's chisel.
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Staff at Sanmina in Lisburn, have been told the plant is shutting down and relocating.The US owned company, which makes computer cabinets, wants to move to Hungary in a bid to lower its wage bill.  (c) 2007 Belfast Telegraph. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Life & style: We burn fossil fuel in the developed world - and plant trees in Africa. It sounds like a win-win situation. But is it? Mark Honigsbaum reports.
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About 20 forestry and wood processing companies in New Zealand have reached an agreement on planning to work together to take on the highly lucrative Chinese market.
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By Hyatt, Abraham  CAVE JUNCTION - It sounded like an unbelievable amount of money: more than $171 million worth of salvage lumber, enough to build as many as 17,000 homes, waiting to be logged in forests blackened by 2002's famed Biscuit Fire.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - An Oregon timber company has appealed the reinstatement of protections on 58.5 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, saying it should be able to continue logging trees burned in a 2002 wildfire in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
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Director of Sustainable Development David Refkin from Time Inc., the world's biggest buyer of glossy paper, speaking to Finnish forestry decisionmakers Wednesday, praised Europe calling it a forerunner in ...