Waste product from the timber industry that would normally be left to rot or burned now will be turned into fuel we can use in our cars. Waste product from the timber industry that would normally be left to rot or burned now will be turned into fuel we can use in our cars. Turning waste into a cleaner burning fuel, using a raw material that can be grown locally and managed, it s a plan that has people all over the state ready to join the fight. Logging for wood and paper products has kept...

The farm's owner, Maurice Emmart, says in his30 years of planting white pinetrees on his three acres,he has never seen the trees suffer so much from a drought. In the past three decades holiday shoppers have come to the farm and hand-picked a tree to take home, but that might not happen this year. WILMINGTON -- Crops aren't the only agricultural items affected by this year's drought, Christmas trees have also been impacted by the lack of rain. Only about fifty of over 3,000 trees planted...

Growers might try to make up for the losses by planting more trees this fall and next year. Trees planted last year and earlier this year will bear the brunt of the dry year, Mr. NEWPORT NEWS (AP) The drought that stunted some crops, drained ponds and parched fields this summer and fall spared Virginia"s Christmas tree farms. Trees sold for this holiday season were not damaged by the drought, said Dan Young, president of the Virginia Christmas Tree Growers Association. Young, who grows...

Some of us in the energy industry have been hoping and praying for something like this to happen. partners, Kosmos Energy and Anadarko; and Sabre Oil & Gas indicating recoverable reserves in excess of one billion barrels, suggest that there is hope for commercial crude oil production in Ghana, and that is good news. The announcements have been greeted with skepticism by many Ghanaians who have doubts about the discovery and by those who think the discovery may be detrimental to the country...

He said: "A friend saw a workman for the developers looking at the tree and when asked what was going to happen he said the tree was going to be pulled down and the order had been rescinded. A spokeswoman for the council moved to reassure neighbours: "The council is still investigating legal action, but Galliard has also agreed to fund a new landscaping plan and tree planting scheme once the development has been completed. advertisement She added: "If any trees have tree preservation...