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Sludgery: a Memoir
By Delores Broten The Reach for Unbleached Foundation has published a comprehensive account of its work on the issue of pulp mill sludge disposal in British Columbia, spanning three decades in the Sludge Files. It is all there – live links to what test results we...
New Paper on Peat Emissions by Pulp & Paper Industry in Indonesia
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...
Explosion at the International Paper Mill
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...
Halalt First Nation Fights Against Vancouver Island Pulp Mill Pollution
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...
Mondi’s Russian Subsidiary under Antimonopoly Investigation
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)...
B.C. Hydro spent $17.5 million to not buy power
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 /...
Toxic Moss in Portland
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,...
Chile regulator to fine Arauco for ‘green liquid’ waste spillage
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...
Resolute Forest launches NAFTA challenge over Nova Scotia paper mill
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...
Conifex to upgrade El Dorado Mill before Mackenzie
BC Forest Watch By Elaine Macdonald-Meisner Prince George, B.C.- Conifex has made its decision, and the El Dorado sawmill in the Southern US will be upgraded first. Conifex had been assessing both its idled Mackenzie Site One sawmill and its recently purchased El...
Surplus land nets Catalyst $4.5 million
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...
Paper Makers’ Promotional Campaign Takes Page From Farmers
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...
‘Chemical Footprint Project’ Takes First Step Toward New International Consensus With Leading Companies & Investors
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...
Coalition of North American Environmental Health and Human Rights Organizations Demaand National Governments Support Global Elimination of Toxic Chemicals
Today, health, human rights, environmental justice, and conservation organizations across North America are calling on the governments of Mexico, Canada, and the United States (US) to join them in opposition to the continued use of pentachlorophenol (PCP). Coalitions...
Canada Sued Under NAFTA
By: Joyce Nelson Trade officials and representatives in Europe and around the world are learning more about the controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism that is now part of many trade deals, and they are balking at its inclusion in deals like...
Santander Financing Extinction
New film: The Future of Paper
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...
Declining Forest Cover puts Government Management, Industry Plans in Question
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...
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