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Getting out the wood vote.


The provincial Liberals are working in overdrive to shore up the sagging forestry industry.

On a mid-August spin through Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing.

Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it
, Natural Resources minister David Ramsay David Ramsay may refer to:
  • David Ramsay (congressman) (1749–1815), a American physician, historian, and Continental Congressman for South Carolina
  • David Ramsay (MP) (after 1673–1710), among the Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain
 delivered a $700,000 cheque to Horne-payne's Olav Haavaldsrud Timber Company to help install a new $7 million saw line, replacing one destroyed in a July 2006 fire. The new line will increase the number and size of logs for processing and add 10 new jobs.

Nearby, the Tembec sawmill sawmill, installation or facility in which cut logs are sawed into standard-sized boards and timbers. The saws used in such an installation are generally of three types: the circular saw, which consists of a disk with teeth around its edge; the band saw, which  in Chapleau is receiving a $3.36 million grant for capital improvements.

Earlier, electricity rebates were announced for Bowater Canadian Forest Products in Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships.  and Marathon Pulp in Marathon. The $140-million provincial program provides quarterly electricity price rebates for pulp and paper mills that purchase a minimum of 50,000 megawatt hours annually.
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Title Annotation:AROUND THE NORTH
Publication:Northern Ontario Business
Date:Sep 1, 2007
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