by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
Resolute Forest Products is facing the threat of expulsion from the group that manages a widely used international forest certification system. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) said Thursday its international board will decide in March whether to recommend that...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
Resolute Forest Products Inc.’s stock price plummeted Thursday on declining sales and a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss. The Montreal-based company’s shares were off 23 per cent – or $1.67 – at $5.60 in early afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange....
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
As Resolute Forest Products was releasing the results of its fourth quarter and 2015 operations, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was criticizing the company’s alleged “unwillingness” to be involved in mediation efforts to resolve its suspended Canadian FSC...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
As public relations coups go, it doesn’t get better than the deal finalized last week by the B.C. government, industry, environmentalists and First Nations to protect all but 15 per cent of the Great Bear Rainforest from commercial logging. Years in the making, it’s...
by Working Forest | Feb 8, 2016 | Archives
Jacqui Beban is used to being the only woman in the room. Practically since birth, she has been exposed to the male-dominated and macho logging business. And last month she became the first female president in the 73-year history of the organization that speaks for...
