Northern Pulp

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Environmental

Our customers demand higher standards that prove the product we provide is sourced from environmentally responsible forest management

• Northern Pulp meets provincial and federal laws and regulations, and performs well beyond them. We are certified to the following third party forestry and environmental standards:
  • Sustainable Forestry Initiative
  • ISO 14001, environmental management system
  • Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Chain of Custody
  • PEFC Chain of Custody
  • FSC-STD-40-005 Controlled Wood

• We use and implement Ecologically-Based Planning on both a landscape and site level. Non-Harvest zones are identified and strictly enforced to allow for ecological preservation including: wildlife habitat, waterway buffers, riparian zones and wildlife corridors. Click here to view an example of an ecologically based plan.
• Independent 3rd party regulators perform audits of site treatment against planned approach to ensure compliance
• Our Forest Advisory Group is comprised of local, independent experts in their field. The Advisory Group regularly provides input and holds Northern Pulp to account on our forestry practices.
• We produce 23 megawatts of green energy & are almost self-sufficient in energy as a result
• We are exploring options to expand our green energy production

SFI Advisory Committee tours mill

Shown (L to R) at the Boat Harbour treatment facility: Dr. Bill Freedman (Ecologist), Roger Mailman (Nova Scotia ATV Association), Dave Davis (Environmental Manager, Northern Pulp), Jim Bremner (farmer and woodlot owner) and George Ferguson (Nova Scotia Salmon Association)

In late May 2010, Northern Pulp's Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Public Advisory Committee toured the mill at Abercrombie Point and the company's waste water treatment facility. The Committee meets several times each year to review and comment on forest management activities and plans as part of our SFI certification programming.