Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla
<E.Dinkla@...> wrote:

> 
> There's more environmental control now in the old paper 
> industries of Scandinavia, Canada, Europe and the USA 
> including tree replant schemes 

Right now, the forest industry is in a slump in parts of Canada.
That's about the best news on the environmental front. Sadly, people
are being laid off from well paying jobs.

As for tree replants, they create artificial forests where almost
nothing lives compared to a natural growth forest.

>  The green image often isn't 
> a clear image. Companies will adapt to the laws and the 
> enforcement of the laws if there are no cheaper, less 
> restricted alternatives abroad. 

Companies have been fighting tooth and nails any environmental
restrictions, citing the need for economic growth and are blaming any
economic downturn on environmental laws, forgetting about the forest
industry economic cycle.

The boreal forest in northern Quebec is almost gone due to clear
cutting. Management of the forest was left to the industry who had
claimed that they were better equiped to protect it that any goverment
agency.

But right now, I'm about to place an order of cotton fiber inkjet
printing paper.

Cheers,
Andre