6 Jan 2011, 11:56am
Monkeywrenching forests Private land policies
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Time to Boycott Georgia-Pacific?

Industrial giant Georgia-Pacific has climbed in bed with radical extremist groups.

Georgia-Pacific Increases Forest Protection and Expands Sustainable Forestry Practices

G-P News Release, November 16, 2023 [here]

Georgia-Pacific LLC announced today it is expanding its forest protection and sustainability efforts with an updated policy to better identify and protect endangered forests in the United States; promote conservation of forest diversity; and enhance its sustainable forestry and recycling practices.

“This policy continues our commitment to sustainability in the fiber we source and the products we make,” said Jim Hannan, Georgia-Pacific chief executive officer and president. “We continue to believe it is possible to operate in a way that is environmentally responsible and also economically sound. This policy also gives us the opportunity to address issues of increasing interest to our customers and to consumers.”

The policy update is the result of ongoing discussions with customers and suppliers, and several years of consultation with a number of environmental organizations, including the Rainforest Action Network, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Dogwood Alliance. …

It isn’t enough that these billion dollar sue-happy Luddites are cutting the throats of forest-based communities across the U.S. and around the world. Now Georgia-Pacific shareholders are dumping more $millions into the coffers of the Gadarene holocausters.

Interestingly, GP is owned by the Koch Brothers, who are big backers of the Cato Institute, an allegedly “libertarian” think tank in the belly of the beast (DC). However, many are aware that the Kochs are “crony capitalists” [here] if not out-and-out global Socialists.

Southern hardwoods are the most valuable timber in America today, especially when logs have figured grain. There is no environmental detriment to professional forest management in Southern hardwood forests. Interestingly, G-P owns no Southern hardwood land and is not in the hardwood milling business. But if they can screw their competition with throat-cutting pseudo-enviro lawsuits, they will, using proxies to do their dirty work.

G-P has chugged the radical enviro Kool Aid, and is now funding wholesale destruction of forests and economies — the real agenda of the Rainforest Action Network, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Dogwood Alliance.

What bastards! G-P ought to be shunned like the evil business lepers they are.

6 Jan 2011, 12:34pm
by Al B.


Property owners should see if G-P has facilities that are getting tax breaks and demand they be revoked. G-P must have facilities in the area or the eco-fascist groups would not be working with a company that was not going to impact the area in some way.

Reply: G-P is in the wood products manufacturing business, but not Southern hardwood milling. They seized an opportunity to sabotage responsible companies that do mill hardwoods.

This conspiracy is no different from El Paso Corp. gifting enviro-radicals $22 million as part of their Ruby Pipeline project. Buy off the litigious freaks to forestall suits against themselves, but in the process fund lawsuits against others. The end result is economic collapse at the local level, while the global giants rake in ever more monopolistic profits on the backs of multiple victims.

6 Jan 2011, 8:01pm
by bear bait


Lessons of the past. The Rainforest Action Network got into Mac&Blo (MacMillan-Bloedel Canada), and got Mac&Blo to quit clear cutting in their B.C. Crown Forest leases. The lost efficiencies and market conditions lowered their bottom line, and golly gee willikers, here comes Whorehouser who absorbed them in a stock buyout.

The model has always been for the MegaPulps to fund the Eco-Wacko Lobby, harass the hell out of competing companies [and government agencies - ed], get them to abdicate good management for fly-by-night environmentalism [and megafires - ed], and here come da judge!!!! And da judge rules for the buy out, da big fish gets bigger and bigger.

So G-P evidently is immune to stock raids, but can do some raiding itself. G-P is privately held and is all about profits. What you are seeing from G-P is smoke and mirrors, and they are working the enviros as much as the enviros are working G-P.

There is no politically correct answer to the machinations of the MegapPulps…

Reply: Let’s not forget that when the Northwest Forest Plan was being birthed, Whorehouser was the doctor. They sat between Bill and Al at the Timber Summit, pulling all the puppet strings. You see, it was greatly to Whorehouser’s financial benefit to shut down and burn down the Federal Estate in the Pacific Northwest. Kill the competition, sabotage their machinery, and destroy their assets. And that’s exactly what happened — no more timber cut from the USFS, and Whorehouser became a monopoly.

The enviro-wackos were (are) pimple-faced Marxist doofuses, but they were (are) useful idiots to Whorehouser. Now G-P is following the Whorehouser model. It’s cheap and easy to buy an enviro-wacko group. Chump change for a global industrial giant. Who do you think pays the bills at Oregon Wild, etc.?

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