Four more companies accept offers from province

Four more companies have accepted wood supply offers from the province.

It will create 38 new jobs and brining more than 250 people back to work.

These companies will use the proposed wood allocations to produce and produce traditional and new forest products and a variety of lumber for construction and clean-burning wood pellets for energy production

The Minister of Nothern Development Michael Gravelle says that our government wants to attract new investment in the forest sector.

The wood supply competition is aimed at putting Ontario's unused wood to work while the government takes steps to introduce a new forest tenure pricing system.