Manitoba town’s last ditch offer to save paper mill fails
Tax breaks would have saved the company about $2.5 million over three years.
First Nation seeks $1.1B through civil suit against Catalyst Paper
Suit alleges Catalyst mill is trespassing on Halalt First Nation’s water and land rights.
Seven dead in China’s latest industrial accident
Workers overcome by gases at paper mill.
Domtar to invest $160 at Ashdown mill
Will convert a paper machine to a fluff pulp line to produce up to 516,000 metric tons per year.
Resolute Forest cutting 300 jobs in Ontario and Quebec
Company is reducing its capacity for newsprint as it copes with reduced demand.
Resolute idles Tennessee newsprint mill
Move affects 150 positions, caused by decreased demand high operating costs.
Nova Scotia considering purchase of shuttered Resolute mill, timberland
Buying the land prevents foreign investor from processing timber outside the province, according to premier Darrell Dexter.
Idled Cape Breton mill gets $1.5 million court approved cash injection
Money for NewPage’s Port Hawkesbury mill comes from a $15.8-million provincial fund to keep the mill in a so-called hot idle mode.
Electricity sales to Hydro Quebec restart paper mill
Resolute Forest Products is selling energy from its cogeneration plant to Quebec’s power grid.
No subsidies for NL Kruger paper mill: minister
Natural Resources Minister Jerome Kennedy says Newfoundland and Labrador will consider any plan to save its last paper mill owned by Kruger but won’t offer direct subsidies.
