Help Save Canada's Boreal Forests
Last week, top executives at Weyerhaeuser pulled the plug on two lumber mills in Saskatchewan, laying off 300 workers. Unions representing mill workers called this week for the suspension of the company's logging rights in the Province.
We think Province officials should listen.Weyerhaeuser's cut-and-run strategy represents the utter failure of the corporate logging industry to benefit people and forests in Canada's Boreal region.
Demand that Weyerhaeuser turn over its rights to log in Saskatchewan's forests.
A Provincial task-force assigned to investigate the issue reported that more than 4000 workers have lost jobs in Saskatchewan within the last year as a direct result of Weyerhaeuser's decisions to cut-and-run from these local communities while leaving behind a trail of environmental destruction.
Throughout Canada's Boreal Forest, corporate loggers are abandoning rural communities even as they invest in the foreign tree-farms that they blame for the layoffs.
The Weyerhaeuser model has also failed for the nearly 600 First Nation communities that live in the Boreal Forest, including Grassy Narrows in Ontario, where three decades of clearcut logging have left only a devastated landscape and a legacy of mercury poisoning.
Shortsighted industry bail-outs from governments struggling to keep sinking local economies afloat only forestall the inevitable—and at substantial cost to Canadian taxpayers.
The lesson of the developing crisis in Canada's logging industry is that local communities know how to care for their forests best. The Poplar River First Nation and the Innu First Nation are just two examples where community-led planning has set a positive vison for healthy, stable local economies that preserve culturally and ecologically significant areas.
We think Province officials should listen.Weyerhaeuser's cut-and-run strategy represents the utter failure of the corporate logging industry to benefit people and forests in Canada's Boreal region.
Demand that Weyerhaeuser turn over its rights to log in Saskatchewan's forests.
A Provincial task-force assigned to investigate the issue reported that more than 4000 workers have lost jobs in Saskatchewan within the last year as a direct result of Weyerhaeuser's decisions to cut-and-run from these local communities while leaving behind a trail of environmental destruction.
Throughout Canada's Boreal Forest, corporate loggers are abandoning rural communities even as they invest in the foreign tree-farms that they blame for the layoffs.
The Weyerhaeuser model has also failed for the nearly 600 First Nation communities that live in the Boreal Forest, including Grassy Narrows in Ontario, where three decades of clearcut logging have left only a devastated landscape and a legacy of mercury poisoning.
Shortsighted industry bail-outs from governments struggling to keep sinking local economies afloat only forestall the inevitable—and at substantial cost to Canadian taxpayers.
The lesson of the developing crisis in Canada's logging industry is that local communities know how to care for their forests best. The Poplar River First Nation and the Innu First Nation are just two examples where community-led planning has set a positive vison for healthy, stable local economies that preserve culturally and ecologically significant areas.
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