Sign at the entrance to the Pictou County pulp mill declaring Northern Pulp a Paper Excellence company. Photo: Joan Baxter
This is how the “Friends of a New Northern Pulp” describe themselves on their website:
We are Nova Scotians who care deeply about our province, our forests, and our communities. We are the 36,000 Nova Scotians who own small and large woodlots.
So, just one line in and the BS begins.
The wording of the second sentence suggests that every one of the 36,000 small and large woodlot owners in the province is a “friend” of a “new Northern Pulp.”
If this statement were true, then I — as a woodlot owner — would count among the “friends” of the “new Northern Pulp.”
What is the “new Northern Pulp” anyway? If it’s the company they’re talking about, it looks an awful lot like the old Northern Pulp.
Northern Pulp’s recent submissions to the BC Supreme Court show it’s still the same old Paper Excellence company, one of whose declared “owners” is just an address in a popular tax haven (The Netherlands).
Corporate structure of Paper Excellence from Bruce Chapman 2020 affidavit to BC Supreme Court
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