News and Views from Millwatch

The EPN released a discussion document that estimates the climate emissions of the pulp & paper industry in Indonesia. In Indonesia, pulp wood plantations on peatlands extend to around 1.1 million hectares - an area roughly the size of Jamaica. Their GHG emissions...

Article by Derek Cosson, January 22, 2017 Click here to view the original article on The Pulse website. A large explosion took place Sunday evening at the International Paper mill in Cantonment, Fla. near Pensacola, with residents reportedly hearing the explosion as...

Click here to view original article at Desmog Canada Written by Carol Linnitt The discovery was yet another piece of evidence that the mill, located in Crofton, B.C. about 45 kilometres north of Victoria, was built on culturally sensitive First Nation’s territory. But...

BY: Natasha Odendaal Creamer Media Deputy Editor Online Click here to view original article. Dual-listed packaging and paper group Mondi on Monday denied any wrongdoing following the launch last week of an investigation by Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS)...

By: Cassidy Olivier Bill Bennett, Minister of Energy and Mines and Minister Responsible for Core Review, speaks about Site C Clean Energy Project during a press conference at the Legislative Press Theatre in Victoria, B.C., Tuesday December 16, 2014. CHAD HIPOLITO /...

Original Article: The New York Times By: KIRK JOHNSON MARCH 2, 2016 PORTLAND, Ore. — The 346 clumps of moss that science researchers from the United States Forest Service scraped from tree trunks and branches across this city looked as ordinary as moss gets — ancient,...

Country: CHILE Author: Felipe Iturrieta and Gram Slattery Click here to view original article at planetark.org Chile's environmental regulator said it would seek to fine wood pulp producer Celulosa Arauco y Constitucion S.A. up to $29.5 million and could revoke the...

By: Brent Patterson, rabble.ca Resolute Forest (formerly known as AbitibiBowater) is launching its second NAFTA Chapter 11 challenge within five years against Canada. The most recent challenge relates to a Cape Breton paper mill. In August 2012, the province of Nova...

Group also has pending deal for Wildwood PRSC parcels by Chris Bolster | reporter@prpeak.com Photo: Catalyst has sold a large parcel of land just under 600 acres adjacent to the mill site to an undisclosed group. The group also has a pending deal with the city for...

Industry aims to emulate self-funded marketing programs pioneered for agricultural products By: Bob Tita, The Wall Street Journal Original article here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/paper-markers-promotional-campaign-takes-page-from-farmers-1436400116 Manufacturers of...

Press release from CSRwire, USA Over $1.1 trillion in investment and purchasing power asks companies for their Chemical Footprint. Signatories include Aviva Investors, BNP Paribas IP, Boston Common Asset Management, Trillium Asset Management, Dignity Health, Kaiser...

BY: MANDY HAGGITH A new film expressing a vision for the future of paper was launched by civil society today in advance of Paper World, the paper industry gathering in Frankfurt, Germany. The film argues that as a global society we need to look at this everyday...

BY: JOYCE NELSON In September 2014, a new satellite study revealed that Canada is leading the world in forest decline and degradation through clear-cut logging, tar sands development, forest fires, and other forms of resource exploitation. Scientists from the...

BY: JOYCE NELSON Canada’s Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, agreed at the end of March to launch an investigation into the extensive muzzling of federally-funded scientists at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Environment Canada, Natural Resources...