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Ireland: Coillte wood supplies set to dry up next year
Supplies of wood needed for home building from Irish State company Coillte are set to dry up next year as a planning crisis that grips commercial forests deepens. Ireland's Department of Agriculture delays in processing tree-felling licences and appeals have frozen timber supplies, threatening an industry that employs about 12,000 people. It has emerged that Coillte, the Ireland’s biggest provider of the logs milled to produce timber, is not in a position to guarantee any supplies for next year as the delays mean the company cannot fell trees. Coillte has already cancelled a yearly auction, normally held in October, at which sawmills bid for about half the wood they need for the succeeding year. It is understood that the State company is likely to cancel another sale, due to be held closer to the end of this year, at which millers would have bought further logs for... Continue reading
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November 9, 2020
Ireland: Coillte wood supplies set to dry up next year
Supplies of wood needed for home building from Irish State company Coillte are set to dry up next year as a planning crisis that grips commercial forests deepens. Ireland's Department of Agriculture delays in processing tree-felling licences and appeals have frozen timber supplies, threatening an industry that employs about 12,000 people. It has emerged that Coillte, the Ireland’s biggest provider of the logs milled to produce timber, is not in a position to guarantee any supplies for next year as the delays mean the company cannot fell trees. Coillte has already cancelled a yearly auction, normally held in October, at which sawmills bid for about half the wood they need for the succeeding year. It is understood that the State company is likely to cancel another sale, due to be held closer to the end of this year, at which millers would have bought further logs for... Continue reading
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November 9, 2020
Ireland: Coillte wood supplies set to dry up next year
Supplies of wood needed for home building from Irish State company Coillte are set to dry up next year as a planning crisis that grips commercial forests deepens. Ireland's Department of Agriculture delays in processing tree-felling licences and appeals have frozen timber supplies, threatening an industry that employs about 12,000 people. It has emerged that Coillte, the Ireland’s biggest provider of the logs milled to produce timber, is not in a position to guarantee any supplies for next year as the delays mean the company cannot fell trees. Coillte has already cancelled a yearly auction, normally held in October, at which sawmills bid for about half the wood they need for the succeeding year. It is understood that the State company is likely to cancel another sale, due to be held closer to the end of this year, at which millers would have bought further logs for... Continue reading