aerial view of large brownish clearcuts with ridges showing from tree harvesting and logging roads winding between patches of remnant dark green forest

Deforestation Inc: Canada is a ‘world laggard’ in sustainable forestry, say critics, and Paper Excellence’s expansion threatens this country’s boreal forests

With Paper Excellence now controlling 21% of Canada’s pulp and paper industry and 22 million hectares of Canada’s forest lands, should Canadians be concerned about its growing control of an entire industry and its supply chain?

by Joan Baxter March 17, 2023March 17, 2023

"Sustainable" forestry in Canada's boreal forests near Dryden, Ontario. Credit: River Jordan for NRDC

This is the sixth in a series of articles resulting from a yearlong investigation into Paper Excellence, by far Canada’s largest pulp and paper producer following its 2021 acquisition of Domtar, and now also the North American logging giant, Resolute Forest Products. These articles are part of “Deforestation Inc.,” a collaboration of the International Consortium […]

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Joan Baxter

Joan Baxter is an award-winning Nova Scotian journalist and author of seven books, including "The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest." Website: www.joanbaxter.ca;... More by Joan Baxter

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