by John Mullinder | Feb 24, 2024 | "Spinning" the truth, Boreal Forest, Forestry, Hypocrisy, Nature Canada
Nature Canada, an Ottawa-based charity that’s been around since 1939, recently added its name to an alliance of environmental groups lambasting the federal and provincial governments on forestry issues, claiming they were complicit with the forest industry in...
by John Mullinder | Apr 30, 2022 | alternative fibre, Canada, Forestry, wheat straw
Canadian environmental group Canopy’s favourite “tree-free” pulp mill is now in receivership. Styled and promoted globally by Canopy and others as North America’s first so-called “tree-free” pulp mill, Columbia Pulp was ordered this week to hand over its assets to a...
by John Mullinder | Mar 28, 2022 | Ancient forests, Forestry, Greenwashing, Little green lies, Sloppy Journalism
Let me be very clear. I fully support the cause of conserving and protecting the world’s remaining primary forests, and like most people feel enormous empathy for a tree that has survived far longer than we humans could ever hope to live, a tree that was around when...
by John Mullinder | Oct 15, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
Well not all of them yet. But I am honoured to summarise some very positive reviews of my recently published book: Deforestation in Canada and Other Fake News. Here’s a selection of them. For full review go to the Reviews page here. “The first chapters set out clear,...
by John Mullinder | Aug 23, 2018 | Canada, Deforestation, Fake News, Forestry
When people learn that I work for the paper industry it’s usually not too long before the conversation somehow drifts towards ‘killing’ or ‘saving’ trees and deforestation. These are issues that have bugged me for years. Not the issues themselves but the widespread...
