MillWatch

Millwatch #43 - August/October 2003
San Francisco Builds a Bridge to the Future
The San Francisco Precautionary Principle
Portland, Oregon: First City To Incorporate The Common Vision on Paper into Law

Millwatch #42 - June 2003
Norske to Save the Day for Gas Pipeline Opponents?
There's Gold in Them Thar Hills
The Reach for Unbleached! Office Paper Buying Club
Harry Potter Walks the Talk - He Uses Better Paper

MillWatch #41 - April 2003
Environmental Paper Summit Creates Common Vision
Walk Your Talk: Use Paper Better and Use Better Paper
The Reach for Unbleached! Office Paper Buying Club

MillWatch #40 - February 2003:
Tests Find High Levels of Toxic Air Pollution

MillWatch No 39 - December 2002
Sulphur Dioxide Linked To Pulp Industry Work And Cancer
Pulp Info Centre Is Open To The Public
More Chlorine Free, Recycled Paper Certified
Staples Goes Old-growth Free
Norske Canada Claims Value And Values
Town Hall Meeting In Powell River Talks About TDF

MillWatch No. 38 - September 2002
Insights from the joint conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEE/ISEA)

MillWatch No. 37 - August 2002
Pulp NON Fiction: Green Engineering Coming to a Mill Near You?
BC is Relaxed Pulp Law Lacks Future Vision

MillWatch No. 36 - April 2002
BC's Zero AOX Pulp Pollution Regulation at Risk
BC Hydro Promotes Power Smart Pulp Mills
Paper from California Reeds
New Bleaching Enzymes
Hydro Plans Concern Crofton

MillWatch No. 35 - February 2002
British Columbia Needs Power Smart Pulp Mills
Take Action To Stop Pulp Pollution

MillWatch No. 33 - September 2001
Markets Start To Move On Chlorine Free Recycled Papers
Rolland Expands PCF Lines: Canadian Producer Leads The North American Industry In PCF Certification
New Society "Walks The Talk"
Norske Skog Elk Falls In The News, Over And Over
Microbes Munch Oxygen, Dissolve Cement Tanks
More Male Fish Embryos Near A Pulp Mill
$900M New Alberta Mill Dies
Domtar Gets Smartwood
Assessment For Boise Mill
Perfect Book?
Good Neighbours In North Carolina
Salmon Win In Oregon
Cepa-Toxic Production From Pulp And Paper
BC Non-Compliance Reports Finally Released
Its A Treat! Nows The Time To Join The Office Paper Buying Club

MillWatch No. 32 - June 2001
Millwatch Salutes PollutionWatch
Backward To The Future-- BC Noncompliance Report Axed?
The Georgia Strait Good Neighbour Challenge
Domtar Poised To Be No. 2 Fine Paper Maker In North America: Now if they could just do something about that sludge.
What Is Happening With Atlantic Packaging Sludge?
Lincoln Pulp Sued Over Dioxin
Ketchikan Clean Up

MillWatch No. 31 - April 2001
Energy Blues
It's Not Too Late! Join The Bulk Office Paper Buying Club
Green Resolutions For Weyco
Fort James Camas Air Permit
Dombind Sticks Like Glue To Ontario Roads
New Canada Dioxin Inventory Includes Salty Hog Ash
Co-generation And Other Wood Waste, Burning Schemes: What's The Problem?

MillWatch No. 30 - February 2001
Irving Pulp Goes for the Gold in Pollution Prevention
Making Girl Fish into Boys
A New Solution: Clean Up the Pollution
Step Off the Toxic Treadmill
On the Sludge Trail
Reach for Unbleached! Internet Presence Continues To Grow With Improved Web Site

MillWatch No. 29 - Dec 2000
Reach for Unbleached! Joins Bellingham Neighbours as They Run for Their Lives
By Their Coffee Filters Ye Shall Know Them!
LP Sells Samoa Mill
Paper Sludge Dump Results in Cancer Cluster Lawsuit
Workers Claim PCB Substitutes Are Health Hazard
Mark Your Calendars - Bulk Office Paper Buying Club
Upgrades for Elk Falls

MillWatch No. 28 - October 2000
Nose News From Norske Skog: Relief For Breathers
Closing The Loop With Oxygen
Weyerhaeuser Upgrade
BC Downgrades Reporting
Ammonia Substitution
Solutions To Landfill

MillWatch No. 27 - August 2000
Good Paper, Bad Mess: Atlantic Sludge in Ontario
Potlatch Lawsuit Settled
National Pollution Release Inventory Improved
Thunder Bay Packaging Convicted and Fined
UK Newspapers Agree to 70% Recycled Content
Tribe Tests of Water Led To Discovery of Polluting Mills
Be a Sludge Buster

MillWatch No. 26 - June 2000
DFO Enforces Law
Downloading Your Daily Paper, Offloading Your Stock
Searching For Compound X: Its A By-Product, And Its Chlorinated
Chlorine Free Progress
Chlorine Free Cheaters
High Tech Pure Air
Nonylphenols CEPA Toxic
LETTER: At Last! The Mystery Explained

MillWatch No. 25 - April 2000
Georgia Pacific Not Exempt From TCF Requirement
Fletcher Challenge Obtains Chain Of Custody Certification
Cheaper, Cleaner Paper
BC's Theodosia River To Get Water Back, Salmon Next
Domtar Sludge Hits The Fan
It's Time To Clean Up Chlorine Bleaching
Pulp Mill Wants To Lower Standards On Landfill
US Firms Tap China's Wood Pulp Market

MillWatch No. 24 - January 2000
From Sludge to Product?
From Sludge to Plastic
Eulachon Tainting
TRS and Phenols
US Citizens Can Sue Polluters
In Canada Fines are Deductible
Montanans Back To Court
Crying Wolf
East Kootenay Environmental Society Encourages Crestbrook Forest Industries To Fix Landfill Leaks Quickly
Potlatch Permit Tightened
Cutting the Costs of Paper
In Memoriam Alice Chambers

MillWatch No. 23 - October 1999
First FSC Certified Paper for American Market
Life Cycle Analysis: India's 5-Leaf Award
Workers Testify Mill Uses Job Blackmail
Bulk Office Paper Buying Club
Port Angeles Cleanup Update
Action on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Mysterious Fecal Pathogens in Domtar Sludge

MillWatch No. 22 - August 1999
Electronic Paper in the Near Future for Your E-Book
Green Chemistry Award
Powell River Precipitator
Chips and Fibre
Wisconsin's PCF Tissue Mill Lost in Takeover
Skeena Cell to Go 100% ClO2
A PCF National Geographic?
Correction: No Howe Sound Sludge at Britannia Mine!
Download Zero Discharge
Bulk Office Paper Buying Club

MillWatch No. 21 - June 1999
Unlocking The Secrets Of Peroxide Perfection
Commissioner Tells Ontario To Regulate Sludge Spreading
Strawberries With Sugar & Sludge
$22 Million Upgrade At Bowater Thunder Bay
Pollute Water For Free
Evergreen Wants PCF Paper
Back To The Old World For A New World Of Pulp And Paper
Bulk Office Paper Buying Club

MillWatch No. 20 - April 1999
Call for a BC Sludge Moratorium
Towns Say 'No!' to Sludge Spreading in New Hampshire
Chlorine Free Summit in New York
Atlantic Packaging Sludge Gets Two Year Extension
New Life DP Certified PCF
Trains Carry Deadly Load
More on Rayonier Site
Powell River Recovery Boiler Keeps on Burning

MillWatch No. 19 - February 1999
Port Angeles Mill Declared Superfund Toxic Site
Stone Goes Cold Turkey!
Crestbrook Sells BC Mills
Pulp And Paper Breaks Even
Howe Sound Mill Ceases To Exist For Canfor
Gold River Closed
Ontario Reviews Health Risks From Paper Sludge
Enforcement Works Better Than Voluntary Measures
Moving Backwards
Beginning Of The End Of The Age Of Pulp And Paper?
From Sweden: "In Spite Of Dismal Pulp Market Sodra Cell In Privileged Seat"

MillWatch No. 18 - December 1998
World Bank Confirms TCF, Closed-loop Is Best
Zero Discharge
No Race To The Bottom In Asia
Rolland New Life Dp Certified PCF
Workers Exposed To Chlorine
Is Co-gen Good For You?
Citizen Air Quality Log

MillWatch No. 17 - August 1998
But It Was Already Polluted Your Honour ... Domtar Fined
Hog Fuel Pile Causing Trouble At Alberni
Recycled Fibre Growth Up
New Coating Technology For Recyclable Packaging
Instant Recycling
Terry Jacks Still On For Howe Sound
L-P In Colorado
Chlorine Dioxide Still Produces Toxic Effluent
Clean Straw Pulp And Paper For China
Toxic Trains In The Last Best Place ... Another Love Canal?
Count Down As Us Dioxin Reassessment Nears Review
Petition Proves Pulp Pollution Plan Still Popular
Copy Centre Chooses New Life

MillWatch No. 16 - June 1998
US Greens Challenge Cluster Rules in Court
New Look For www.conservatree.com
'Way To Go, Overwaitea'
Indonesia Forest Collapse
MB Sells BC Mills
Jefferson Smurfit Buys Stone
Leaks And Spills In New Zealand
Port Alice BC Chlorine Leak
Irving Mill NB Charged For Fish Kill
Claim To Shame: Voluntary Pollution Prevention Not Working Too Well
Weyco Gets P2 Prize
Environment Canada Lost
PA Mill Gets Upgrade
Innovative Waste Disposal Features Lignosulfonate

MillWatch No. 15 - April 1998
Stone Lawsuit: $650,000 For Pollution Prevention
Cancer A Risk In Paper Mills
Deadly Effluent Continues
Particulate Emissions
Only Recycled For US Feds
Pryke Makes It!
Pulp Mill Scratched!
Sludgery Report
When Pollution Prevention Meets The Bottom Line
Reach! Vancouver

MillWatch No. 14 - February 1998
Ontario Keeps Zero AOX As Goal For 2002
New Technologies Journal
Agencies Ignore Buy Recycled Order
National Pollutant Release Inventory For Canada
Workers Occupy KC Plant
Air Side Repairs
North America's Largest Power Boiler Vs. The People
Responsible Care Needs Reality Check, Say Unions
E. B. Eddy Wins With A Question Of Balance
Reach! On The Web
Government Burns Citizens On Beehive Burners
Children And Asthma: Risk Greatest From Smallest Particles

MillWatch No. 13 - December 1997
USA Announces Cluster Rules: Chlorine Dioxide Okayed
Worker Health Study
Pozone For Bleaching?
Bleach Enzymes In India
Kimberly-Clark Sells Mills
Mills For Sale
Soeharto Launches Kiani Kertas Mill
Crofton Landfill
Acid-Tolerant PCC
Hemp Symposium

MillWatch No. 12 - October 1997
MX or Compound X?
Diseased Trees And Sludge
Skeena Mill Re-Opens
Fibre For Sustainable Us Pulp & Paper Industry
Pulp Growth Stats
Powell River Grate Ash/Lime Dregs Appeal: Substantive Victory!
Mercury In Bellingham Bay
Evergreen Students
Explosion Injures Seven
Pulping Borneo
Fletcher Sells Blandin

MillWatch No. 11 - August 1997
Ask For The TCF/PCF Logos!
CPPA Sponsors Non-wood Fibre Forum
Fletcher Challenge BC Mills On Strike
MB Guilty on ClO2 Spill
Chlorine Leak At PVC Plant
Genetic Damage To Salmon From ClO2 Effluent
Hammermill Cut
Weyerhauser Bails Out Of Chlorate Plant
Pulp Prices On Rise

MillWatch No. 10 - June 1997
Maine Fight for TCF Loses
Chlorine Free Paper Bill
Indonesian Giant Mills
Even in Mongolia
Nalco Buys Ciba's Enzymes
Florida Charges Tissue Companies with Price Fixing
Fort James
Bring On the Bucket Brigades!
More Dioxin
Sludge Appeal
On Flyash and On ClO2

MillWatch No. 9 - April 1997
Americans Lobby for Totally Chlorine Free
Washington State Moves to Zero Discharge
Maine Zero Chlorine Bill
Gulf of Mexico Pipeline
Georgia Buys Green Paper
Regulatory Reinvention
Mill to Fund Fish Studies
Macblo's Ontario Expansion>
Greenpeace on Chlorine Dioxide
Arbokem's Fields of Reams
Kenaf Paper Plant in Texas
Citizens' Handbook
Celgar's Uncontrollable Urge to Dump Again

MillWatch No. 8 - February 1997
Sludge and Solid Waste
Ethical Investing and Shareholders' Resolutions
Pollution in Puget Sound
Port Angeles Toxic Cleanup
Maine Mills Back Out on Dioxin Elimination
Howe Sound Appeals
Chip Mill Invasion
Solid Wastes Appeal
Asian Pulp and Paper
Tissue Production Increase
Ontario Thermo-mechanical
Website for Mill Info
Health effects of ClO2
Dioxin Conference
Clean Paper Making for the 21st Century
MillWatch by email

MillWatch No. 7 - December 1996
$88 Million for Canadian Closed Loop
Enzymes From Israel
Clean-up Plan Closes Mills
PM10 Smog Blights Babies in the Womb
Greenpeace and Fletcher Challenge NZ
Port Angeles Mill to Close
Another Chlorine Dioxide Spill in Powell River
Tissue Issue
Ketchikan Pulp To Close
JUMP Workforce Training
US National Sludge Alliance
BC Workshops Complete

MillWatch No. 6 - October 1996
Total Chlorine-Free Around The World
Elemental Chlorine-Free Pulp Takes Over
Greenpeace Protests Baikal Paper Mill
Greenpeace Visits FC's Tasman Pulp Again
Canfor Charged For Gas
First Stop, Powell River
Mercury In Sulphuric Acid
Ontario Revokes Zero Aox
Eddys Installs Ozone
Way Up North
Yellow Cedar Not Cut For Pulp Chips
Cluster Rules
Cross-Border Effluent

MillWatch No. 5 - July 1996
Montana Chlorine Disaster
Worker Lung Health
PM10 and Children with Asthma
New Paper Lists
Chlorine-Free Recycling on the Columbia River!
Greenpeace Challenges Fletcher Challenge New Zealand to go Totally Chlorine-Free
Pulp Prices Plunge
First Totally Chlorine-Free Magazine in Japan
Powell River Sludge
Dow Dioxin Test
Yellow Cedar Chips
WWW Hormone Disrupters
Little Zeros Watch

MillWatch No. 4 - April 1996
Ozone Bleaching Research
Totally Chlorine-Free Rauma Kraft Mill Up and Running
Ketchikan Air
MillWatch Workshops
My Perspective
Pulp Companies Look for Alternative Fibres
Chlorine Dioxide Critique
Info Needed
Citizens' Dioxin Conference
Columbia River Otters Show Abnormalities
Newsprint Merger

MillWatch No. 3 - February 1996
James River Chlorine Leak
Bleach Plant Corrosion
Lake Baikal Pulp And Paper Mill
New Mills In Russia
New Mill In Nova Scotia
New Enzymes For Bleaching
Pulp And Paper Prices Fall
Environmental Defense Fund's Paper Task Force
Environmental Scholars
Water Reuse
Not Such Great News For The Ohio
OSB Emmission Appeal Won
Conferences

MillWatch No. 2 - December 1995
Sodium Hydrosulphite
Alkylphenols
BC Pulp Mill Monitoring Workshops
European Chlorine Industry Sues Soedra Cell
Oregon Environmental Law
EPA Dioxin Reassessment Passes Peer Review
Dioxin: Orange Resource
European Union Info Needed
Pulp, Paper And Power
If You Can't Beat Them

MillWatch No. 1 - October 1995
Zero Dioxin For New Mill On The Ohio
Dioxin Information
Chlorine-Free In California
On Dioxin
Powell River, British Columbia Pulp Beat
Accident Response
What's Coming Down About What's Going Up (A Little More Dioxin Won't Hurt You)
Stack Emissions Numbers
Symons Study On Air Emissions
World Wildlife Fund's Hormone Copycats

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