Nov 4, 2011 | National Park, PLC Members in the News
“Despite the rhetoric from Roxanne Quimby and other park supporters about jobs, when you look at the facts, a National Park is a bad idea for Maine,” said Mike Beardsley, Executive Director for the Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of Maine. PLC is a trade...
Oct 27, 2011 | Acadia Insurance, Business News, PLC Members in the News, Safety
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Sep 9, 2011 | PLC Members in the News
By Terry Karkos, Staff Writer RUMFORD — Upper Swain and Isthmus road residents inconvenienced by Tropical Storm Irene’s washout of two culverts Sunday won’t have to wait weeks for relief. Rumford logger Jim Nicols of Nicols Brothers Logging Inc. learned of...
Jul 14, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Federal Regulations, Industry News, Markets, PLC Members in the News
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — It’s tough enough for American sawmills to compete when the lumber industry is depressed by the economy; it’s still tougher when foreign competition has the competitive edge because of government subsidies. The United States and Canada signed a...
Jun 27, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Industry News, LePage Administration, Maine House, News, PLC Members in the News
MILLINOCKET, Maine — A lack of wood is one of several logjams preventing a Chinese investor from buying both Katahdin region paper mills for $1, one of the area’s state representatives says, though industry insiders say the wood’s affordability might be the real...