Natural Resources committee  From a pay-scale perspective?

Natural Resources committee  Well, that is a problem. Paper mills today generally consume a huge portion of the residuals from different sawmills or chip plantations. The paper industry is in a significant decline. North American paper consumption peaked in 1999 or 2000 and it's been on a precipitous decline

Natural Resources committee  No doubt. I mean, certainly, what our company is focused on is that in any grade of tissue today, probably about 60% of the fibre supply is hardwood. That would be from those areas: Indonesia and areas of China. Brazil is probably the predominant supplier today. Nobody in Canada

Natural Resources committee  I can talk about certainly, in the pulp and paper sector, obviously, graphic paper is one that is not growing, but the whole demand for pulp is growing at 3% to 5% per year. Global packaging—I call it the “Amazon effect”—is growing at 4% to 5% per year. It is very good. Packaging

Natural Resources committee  A number of years ago we started down a path with the City of Saint John. A pulp mill the size of our pulp mill has enough waste heat to power virtually every building in the city core, both residential and commercial. Every Scandinavian community that has a pulp mill has very we

Natural Resources committee  The last thing is district heating in Europe. Just about every pulp mill supplies predominantly all of the heating energy for municipalities that are around them. That has not taken hold in Canada. That would require a lot of federal intervention, because it's a very costly infra

Natural Resources committee  Thanks. I look after the pulp and paper division. We have four large operations in New Brunswick producing just over 1.2 million tonnes of total product, all the way from primary residual use of our chips from our kraft pulp mill through to specialty paper. We have the most mode