Coupes forestières en zone sensible
Un refus renversé en 19 minutes
🔴 Un appel en haut lieu a suffi à la papetière Domtar pour obtenir un permis de travaux forestiers qui lui avait été refusé par les voies officielles.
🔸 Une énième démonstration que le ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts n’agit pas dans l’intérêt public, dénoncent des groupes écologistes.
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/environnement/coupes-forestieres-en-zone-sensible/un-refus-renverse-en-19-minutes/2026-02-10/refus-annule-apres-une-intervention-de-domtar/un-choix-motive-par-le-contexte-economique.php
#Québec #CAQ #Autochtones #environnement #Domtar #forêt
Refus annulé après une intervention de Domtar Un choix motivé par le « contexte économique »

La papetière Domtar a fait annuler, par un appel haut placé, le refus des fonctionnaires du gouvernement de lui accorder une autorisation de coupes forestières dans une zone sensible où se trouvent des sites patrimoniaux autochtones, sur la Côte-Nord.

La Presse
Another #BC #pulp mill getting shuttered, right before Christmas? Another small town gets blindsided? My heart goes out to everyone affected by the #Crofton #Domtar announcement today. This is the second time in a month (100 Mile.)that Why isn't the #BCNDP doing more for our forest sector? #bcpoli
Espanola looking to move away from forestry a year after Domtar idled the mill | CBC News

Espanola is hoping to develop an economic diversification strategy that would look at taking advantage of the town’s services and proximity to Sudbury.

CBC
After denying links, Canadian forestry giant owner openly seeks control over Asian conglomerate

Jackson Wijaya aims to consolidate control over Domtar (formally Paper Excellence) and Asia Pulp & Paper, after both companies spent years denying they were linked.

Vancouver Is Awesome

#PaperExcellence has hired McMillan at least six times over the last six years to advise on more than $6 billion US in transactions, including its takeovers of #forestry companies #CatalystPaper, #Domtar & #ResoluteForestProducts. It also represented a Paper Excellence subsidiary in a dispute with CN Rail.

Multiple #legal #ethics experts said they felt the FSC's decision to hire McMillan was problematic.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7207210

#ConflictOfInterest #Deforestation #BCpoli #Ecocide #CDNpoli

Critics slam review of Canadian forestry giant's sustainability credentials, asserting conflict of interest

Canadian forestry giant Paper Excellence won't have its sustainability certification revoked by the world's premier forestry credentialing body after a review — a process critics and experts say appears to have been rife with conflicts of interest and far from independent.

CBC
I Went to Canada to Watch 'Barbie' With Ryan Gosling's Family

Cornwall, Ontario, is known for two things: being stinky and Ryan Gosling. It celebrated the latter with a Barbie screening and some light gossip.

Jezebel
No Loophole for Seaspan’s North Van Property Taxes | The Tyee

The company argued polluted lands should mean lower taxes. A judge disagreed.

The Tyee