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Abitibibowater INC. - English
AbitibiBowater to Certify 8 Million Acres of Forest to FSC Standards
September 19th, 2008
AbitibiBowater announced that it intends to certify three forest units to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) forest management standards. These units are located in Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, representing a total area of approximately 8 million acres (3.2A million hectares). The process to certify these areas was initiated several months ago and efforts are progressing well. This decision builds on AbitibiBowater's existing commitments to certify 100% of its managed forests to one of the three predominant North American certification standards, including the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and FSC. AbitibiBowater has an...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-09-19)
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