{"id":935245,"date":"2026-10-16T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935245\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:56:20","slug":"ottawa-investing-50-million-in-high-tech-forestry-centre-in-new-brunswick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935245\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa investing $50 million in high-tech forestry centre in New Brunswick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICTON \u2014 The federal government says it plans to invest $50 million in a proposed digital forestry centre in New Brunswick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once launched, the goal of the Strategic Innovation Centre in Digital Forestry will be leveraging AI technology to keep the forest industry profitable while protecting the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s forestry sector has been hard-hit by tightening supply, increased operational costs, low pulp prices and ongoing U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed centre is a collaboration between the Northern Hardwood Research Institute and Research New Brunswick, which asked for the federal funding earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Research NB says the centre will build a digital twin of New Brunswick\u2019s forests, which could be used to predict the locations of wildfires and pest infestations.<\/p>\n<p>Natural Resources Canada says the centre could become a model for other regions.<\/p>\n<p>The department says the funding is conditional on the project\u2019s final approval. Federal officials say the centre\u2019s total value is estimated at $86 million.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said the government is working on a national forest sector strategy that will create the conditions for more initiatives like the forestry centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a92026 The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREDERICTON \u2014 The federal government says it plans to invest $50 million in a proposed digital forestry centre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-935245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}