by John Mullinder | Feb 5, 2023 | Canada, Deforestation, hydro-electric power, Indigenous rights,, Québec
Two Innu communities, one in Québec and one in Labrador, are suing Québec’s provincial crown corporation, Hydro-Québec, for over $6 billion, claiming that the reservoirs and transmission lines of hydro-electric development have flooded and destroyed part of their...
by John Mullinder | Jan 2, 2023 | Canada, Deforestation
I am going to ask you to do something that no self-respecting writer should ever do. And that’s to momentarily take your eyes off these wonderfully crafted words and do a Google search. I am so sure of your loyalty that I know you’ll come back. See, you’re still...
by John Mullinder | Sep 23, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
Initially, it was years of frustration running into people who knew little about forestry and paper production but plenty about killing and saving trees and deforestation. But it’s much bigger than that. There’s so much misinformation out there, especially in social...
by John Mullinder | May 14, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
An American environmental group is lashing out at Canadian logging companies and their customers for not supporting its preferred certifier of sustainable forest management, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)...
by John Mullinder | Apr 18, 2021 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry, Paper
Perhaps Indigo publisher and CEO Heather Reisman should stick to something she knows something about. She clearly doesn’t know much about forest and paper issues if her recent coffee-table book is anything to go by. It’s so loaded with false and misleading claims...
by John Mullinder | Oct 1, 2020 | Canada, Deforestation, Forestry
As a long-time admirer of Canadian broadcaster and author David Suzuki’s pungent style, it’s tough to have to point out three major errors in his latest opinion piece. I do so because his claim that paper does not represent a circular let alone a sustainable...
