Leaked: Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

by Michael Majors

You can download a leaked pdf scan of the CBFA at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/3448. 

 

The agreement evinces a corporate wish list for beneficial interests in the land far greater than the opportunity currently conveyed in tenures to operate forest products businesses.  

 

The so-called enviro engos support corporate wishes against public and First Nations' interests in return for solely emblematic reform of wilderness exploitation. 

 

The model for the CBFA agreement seems more like the Fake-Environmental Mountain Caribou Initiative than the GBR deal.  Perhaps when the maps and appendices become available the whole package could be distributed on WikiLeaks. 

 

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
May 12, 2010
 
BETWEEN
 
The Canadian Boreal Initiative, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki
Foundation, Forest Ethics, Greenpeace, Canopy, The Nature Conservancy, Pew Environment
Group International Boreal Conservation Campaign, The Ivey Foundation (hereafter referred to
as the "ENGOs")
 
AND
 
AbitibiBowater Inc., Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc., AV Group, Canfor Corporation, Canfor
Pulp Limited Partnership, Cariboo Pulp & Paper Company, Cascades Inc., Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd., F.F. Soucy Inc., Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Limited Partnership, Kruger Inc.,
Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd., Mercer lnternational, Mill & Timber Products Ltd., NewPage
Corporation, Papier Masson Ltée, SFK Pate, Tembec, Tolko Industries Ltd., West Fraser Timber
Co. Ltd., and Weyehaeuser Company Limited (hereafter referred to as the "FPAC Members")
 
AND
 
The Forest Products Association of Canada (hereafter referred to as the "FPAC")
 
WHEREAS
 
A.  The world's boreal forests, including those in Canada, are ecologically significant and
      important natural capital assets in a local, regional, national, and global context.
 
B.  Cahada’s boreal forests are economically and socially significant in a Iocal, regional, national
      and international context.
 
C. Canada's forests are culturally important to all Canadians, and sustain important spiritual,
     aesthetic, and recreational values.
 
D. Canada's boreal forests are uniquely important to Aboriginal Peoples and are a vital part of
     the cultural, spiritual, economic and social relationships between Aboriginal communities
     and their traditional lands.
 
E. Canada's boreal forests are rich in biodiversity and contain critical habitat for a number of
     species at risk, including species such as the threatened woodland caribou.
 
 
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