Responding to Weyerhaeuser’s Spin
Recent activities in Seattle and LA and over 2000 letters sent to Quadrant CEO Peter Orser are begining to make an impact. Last week, the company issued emails signed by Mr. Orser (download a copy here).
While it’s good that he took the time to respond, he misses the central point–that Quadrant shares a responsibility to respect indigenous rights. His only real response is that “Weyerhaeuser believes issues related to treaty rights or co-management of resources must be addressed at a government-to-government level…” Essentially, says Orser, ‘this isn’t our responsibility’.
In fact, Grassy Narrows has been seeking to address its concerns at a government-to-government level for more than three decades to no tangible result and in spite of obligations imposed on provincial and federal authorities by Canadian Courts and censure from the United Nations. The summary response from government is essentially ‘this isn’t our responsibility’.
Our position? It’s time to stop buck-passing and get on with business. Weyerhaeuser, Quadrant and everyone else profiting from resource extraction on aboriginal lands share a responsibility to ensure the free, prior and informed consent from the communities in which they opperate.
And we’re not alone. In June, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to approve the Declaration on Human Rights. Now the Declaration needs to be adopted by the UN General Assembly. The Declaration states in part that
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands, territories and other resources, including the right to require that States obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands, territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources.
Significantly, Canada voted against the deal–a move that drew international criticism. Even the stalwart free-marketeers over at The Economist recognize what the magazine recently called the “failure of Canada’s policies towards its aboriginal people”.
So, if haven’t yet, consider responding to Mr. Orser about what he calls his “full support of the steps that Weyerhaeuser has taken to resolve these issues.”
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October 3rd, 2006 at 1:43 pm
I don’t believe you care. I think you are irresponsibly hiding behind a set of unfortunate formalities. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 3rd, 2006 at 3:09 pm
I am about to start a large addition/deck onto my home. I will not be using Weyerhaeuser wood. Even if it costs me a little more. Let’s start looking at the long term istead of short term gains. I assume some of you have children and want them to enjoy the planet they live on. Perhaps being able to breath and drink the water. Think about it.
October 3rd, 2006 at 4:02 pm
i don`t think you do care, you don`t see the importance of healthy nature to the whole planet, do you??? even if i don`t talk about the rights of native landowners, which don`t seem to be the same rights as the rights of white, black, or yellow landowners in 2006 in your country, maybe you didn`t notice yet, but the white man managed in 200 years to change the climate, he poisened the sea, the earth, the air, destroyed the ozon cover around the earth, actually destroed everything his own children will need to survive. don`t you think it`s about time you start to work together with the native people and their wisdom of 60.000 years living in harmony with the nature, to save our planet and save the future of your own children, because even they can`t eat money. regards nurith krueger
October 3rd, 2006 at 9:28 pm
I am the owner and operator of a cabinet and mill shop and I will do all that I can to avoid Weyerhaeuser products. Your past practices have already come to many of my colleges attention and we will continue to act accordingly.There are alternatives and it should be part of your business practice to employ sound logging and invironmentally sustainable practices.
October 4th, 2006 at 1:32 am
You want to have things both ways. You take advantage of the inaction of government and claim to be environmentally responsible as you destroy forests by using/promoting non-sustainable methods, ignore the rights of indegenous
people and profit from the destruction of our Earth.
Trying to put a ‘green spin’ on these actions or denying responsibilty will not fool informed citizens orconsumers.
October 4th, 2006 at 7:55 am
Sir, we all share this planet, and as a consequence, we all must carry the burden to protect social and ecological justice. How sad that you do not understand your responsibilities as a human being….
October 4th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Shame on you for hiding behind the fine lines of the law rather than the very broad spirit of the law. Rights of Native Nations must be honored before the economic profits.
October 4th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
If Weyerhaeuser sincerely cared about future generations, it would be responsible. There is a saying that after one’s food is no longer safe to eat, or in any way edible, one would not have long to live by eating one’s money. Please think about the little ones in your own family and their future.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:09 am
Until Weyerhaeuser respects indigenous rights- in theory and in practice- I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:12 am
I agree with David Loudenbeck. It’s unfortunate that a company that seems to be moving in the right direction (regarding recycling) can be so shortsighted in another, equally important area. If the indigenous people had discovered gunpowder before the white man, this would be a whole different world.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:12 am
It’s to bad that companies are only worried about the profit margins, and not respecting the rights of native peoples who have lived in these places for a hundred years or more. The fact that there are still trees there shows that they are good steward’s of the land that they have, and you are going to destroy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 5th, 2006 at 7:18 am
Your response boils down to a do nothing approach. We all have been there in our lives, but people with a responsible conscience act.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:22 am
The only thing Quadrant has said that I believe is that it “fully supports” Weyerhauser. How about supporting the rights of indigenous people?
October 5th, 2006 at 7:25 am
If you are making and using the products, it is your responsibility to make and use them environmentally wisely. This is obvious to the most uninformed observer.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:32 am
Passing the buck and refusing to take responsibility for the results of your actions is not the kind of behavior I want from a company that I buy from. Unless this reckless attitude is reversed, I will no longer buy from your company.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:33 am
In order for Weyerhaeuser to be truely “commited to the environment”, it must take responsibility for the co-management of resources and treaty rights. I’m not sold yet..
October 5th, 2006 at 7:51 am
I don’t believe you care. I think you are irresponsibly hiding behind a set of unfortunate formalities. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:11 am
Thank you for your response to my concerns about you logging activities in Grassy Narrows. Obviously, the indigenous peoples would not agree with the contents of your e-mail and should have the right to determine and safeguard the future of development of THEIR land, including their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any environmentally sensitive projects.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Please think again.
October 5th, 2006 at 8:38 am
Thank you for taking the time to respond, but you bypass the central point–that Quadrant shares a responsibility to respect indigenous rights. Your only real response is that “Weyerhaeuser believes issues related to treaty rights or co-management of resources must be addressed at a government-to-government level…” Essentially you are saying, ‘this isn’t our responsibility and we don’t intend to change’.
Weyerhaeuser, Quadrant and everyone else profiting from resource extraction on aboriginal lands share a responsibility to ensure the free, prior and informed consent from the communities in which they opperate.
In June, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to approve the Declaration on Human Rights. The Declaration will soon be adopted by the UN General Assembly. The Declaration states in part that “Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands, territories and other resources, including the right to require that States obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands, territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources.”
I and my family will boycott your products until such time as your firm accepts its responsibilities to others.
You need to rethink your position.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:07 am
I think you are insincere, dishonest and acting irresponsibly hiding behind a set of unfortunate formalities. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:10 am
If a corporation like Weyerhaeuser began construction without consent on a piece of land that was owned by Mr. Orser, I wonder how calm he would be about the situation and whose responsibility he would consider it to be. That old “not our responsibility” refrain is just an ancient shell game.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Friends will be boycotting Weyerhauser products also… and they will pass the message on to their friends who will do the same.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:14 am
Your company has been singing the same song for too long.
You refuse to accept the responsibility of your actions,& don’t care at all about the native people or their rights!
I am boycotting all Weyerhauser products & will encourage my family & friends to do the same.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:18 am
I dont feel that I can trust what you say as you have not walked your talk.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:57 am
The Canadian Government is being criminally irresponsible by not obtaining the ‘free and informed consent of the indigenous peoples prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands’. If you continue this behavior without the approval and consent of the indigenous peoples, you too are
behaving in a criminal manner. I do not accept your hiding behind the ‘government to government’ excuse to continue with this unlawful behavior. I will boycott your products and work to increase the boycott until you change your behavior. You do know right from wrong don’t you?.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:02 am
I don’t buy your passing the buck excuse. Boycott Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:19 am
Stop “passing the buck” and try living by Harry S. Truman’s philosophy – “the buck stops here” and begin taking responsibility for your irresponsible actions with regard to preserving the earth’s resources for future generations.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:43 am
I will no longer buy your products. You can take that to the bank!!! No spin here!!!
October 5th, 2006 at 11:46 am
its a Tragedy of the Commons, you cannot dismiss your action (or the passing of those decisions to others making those actions) as not being part of another persons tragedy. If what you do does not promote clean air, water, harming other species including humans, then you are responsible.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:48 am
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands, territories and other resources, including the right to require that States obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands, territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources.
I don’t think that you care at all about anything other than profit. I think you are irresponsibly hiding behind a set of formalities, and I will boycott all Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
You need to do more to show this issue is really important to your company.
October 5th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Pat answers prove the problem was understood – the individual answering did not want to deal or be truthful to the questionner. The response means they are still going to do what they want. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Weyerhaeuser, Quadrant and everyone else profiting from resource extraction on aboriginal lands share a responsibility to ensure the free, prior and informed consent from the communities in which they operate. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Buck passing is such a cowards way out. Be a man and sit down to the big peoples table to resolve the matter responsibly.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
I can’t abide by this terribly unethical and immoral behavior on the part of Weyerhaeuser. Money isn’t everyting. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
I believe this is not only irresponsible but greed and power motivated. I am deeply saddened by the actions of “Corporate America” and the impact their lack of concern has on individual rights and the Earth Mother.
October 5th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
It’s unfortunate that Weyerhauser chooses to ignore the opportunity to step up and TAKE repsonsibility as a Business for Social Responsibility. How would you like it if people starting pillaging the resources on your own property under emanant domain? And since you’ve set a precedent, you really wouldn’t have much of a leg to stand on. I am boycotting Weyehauser products, and I will make sure that you are not part of my 401K mutual fund plans as well. I don’t want this dirty money.
October 5th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products until I know, for fact, that you and the companies you associate with in the Rainforest regions are managing the areas in your charge with respect and the people with respect and the animals with respect and the entire eco system with respect and not clear cutting and ruining the area for good and the people’s lives for ever.
October 5th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Here is a copy of the email that I sent to Mr. Orser on 8/31/06, in respomse to his spin-full reply to my previous letter on this issue:
Dear Mr. Orser:
I understand that your job is dependent upon you putting a positive spin on Weyerhauser’s activities in respect to environmental impact and sustainability. However, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and it is thanks to the actions of Weyerhauser that I cry every time I go back home and see the devastation that Weyerhauser has caused on the Olympic Peninsula. It is thanks to the actions of Weyerhauser that land has become so expensive in the Pacific Northwest, because Weyerhauser can afford to pay high prices and then strip the land of every tree and sell the lumber, and then you build houses on the newly denuded land.
Regarding Weyerhauser’s position on the Dow Jones Sustainability North American Index, just because Weyerhauser has managed to pull the wool over the eyes of the Dow Jones, and has made itself look good in comparison to a bunch of companies with a deplorable track record, does not mean that Weyerhauser’s actions in the Whiskey Jack forest are admirable. Being one step up the moral ladder from total scum does not make one virtuous.
As for Quadrant Homes, rather than getting defensive about how wonderful you think Weyerhauser is just because they are the ones buttering your bread, why don’t you look into the possibility of engineering positive change in the way that both Weyerhauser and Quadrant do business? Instead of pretending to be environmental leaders, why don’t you actually do it? Because you are not fooling anyone except the environmental rapists at the Dow Jones (and maybe not even them), and those of your customers who have not yet gotten word about you online (and it’s only a matter of time before they do). By pretending to be environmentally responsible instead of actually doing it, you only make yourself look worse in the public’s eyes, not better. And that, combined with your apparent inability to change with the times, is going to be really bad for business in the long run.
Sincerely,
Eve Marie Eells
October 5th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
While it’s good that you took the time to respond, you miss the central point–that Quadrant shares a responsibility to respect indigenous rights. Your only real response is that “Weyerhaeuser believes issues related to treaty rights or co-management of resources must be addressed at a government-to-government level…” Essentially, says Orser, ‘this isn’t our responsibility’.
In fact, Grassy Narrows has been seeking to address its concerns at a government-to-government level for more than three decades to no tangible result and in spite of obligations imposed on provincial and federal authorities by Canadian Courts and censure from the United Nations. The summary response from government is essentially ‘this isn’t our responsibility’.
Our position? It’s time to stop buck-passing and get on with business. Weyerhaeuser, Quadrant and everyone else profiting from resource extraction on aboriginal lands share a responsibility to ensure the free, prior and informed consent from the communities in which they opperate.
And we’re not alone. In June, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to approve the Declaration on Human Rights. Now the Declaration needs to be adopted by the UN General Assembly. The Declaration states in part that
Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands, territories and other resources, including the right to require that States obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands, territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources.
Significantly, Canada voted against the deal–a move that drew international criticism. Even the stalwart free-marketeers over at The Economist recognize what the magazine recently called the “failure of Canada’s policies towards its aboriginal people”.
I don’t believe you care. I think you are irresponsibly hiding behind a set of unfortunate formalities. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Mr Orser,
It is my opinion that your response to the extraction of lumber from Canada and the effect that has on the indigenous peoples in question, is really no more than predictable window dressing. No matter who may sign agreements with the extracting corporations to harvest forest products it is still a primary responsibility of that corporation, Weyerhauser in this case, if it is a truly ethical company, to see that all due processes and just compensation to the indigenous peoples is settled.
Saying “It’s not my responsibility” is the answer of an uninterested person.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Senator Martinez (R-Florida) recently took the trouble to chastise me in a personal letter for paying attention to Canadian politics and contacting Canadian officials.
Human rights and environmental issues know no borders, a concept too disconnected from dollar signs for Senator Maritenez to comprehend.
Prior correspondence from Senator Martinez was rife with junk science and other misinformation from the corporate community stating the ficticious need to rape the Arctic Wildlife Refuge and other such nonsense.
Clearly, we need more legislators in every nation who think more and stink less.
October 5th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
We stole the land from indigenous tribes once. Now, fat- cat corporations want to do it again. It paints an ugly picture of corporations throughout the world. I will boycott those companies that put the buck above fairness and decency.
October 6th, 2006 at 2:37 am
hi i think people should care and take a great advantage it’s our duty to help and be responsible
October 6th, 2006 at 8:43 am
I know how much you care about the environment. I saw first hand the terrible damage your clear cutting has done in my home state of Arkansas.
October 6th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Our family is boycotting your products until you address the rights and priorities of indigenous people when you develop lands.
October 6th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Weyerhaeuser/Quadrant shares the responsibility of ensuring the consent of indigenous peoples on the lands in which it operates. No more passing the buck!
October 6th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Weyerhaeuser has taken no steps that are satisfying this issue for the indigenous peoples. I will not knowlingly buy any further Weyerhaeuser products.
October 6th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Dear Sir/Madam, It seems that your company has a limited respect for indigenous rights. To say that the treaty rights should be delt with on a government level is imature dont you think? Your company is run by human beings not robots. Please think about your actions, and understand that actions do have consequences.
Brendan Davis-Gibbons
October 6th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Another big company honcho “passing the buck” while the $$$ roll in; at great expense to the people and earth. When did these people lose their compassion and love of beauty? Is their world such a small one that a dollar makes them happy? What a bird singing, or a beautiful wildflower growing next to a magnificent Oak? Doesn’t he care that he is killing them all? WAKE UP!!!
October 7th, 2006 at 3:51 am
I will not buy any Weyerhouse products unless you will take care for Human Rights for the indigenous people.
October 8th, 2006 at 3:11 am
Along with rights to plunder go responsibilities. If it’s not your responsibility, then your rights to plunder are equally as void. It’s time for you and your company to respect and honor indigenous rights. Or does your company claim indigenous rights? Exactly. A ludicrous claim. If you had the will, you could do something about solving this 30+ year abdication of “responsibility.” Do get real–passing the buck is no option.
October 8th, 2006 at 6:15 am
Dear Mr. Orser,
I wonder how you would feel if the home you owned and the land you lived on was plowed through, clearcut and destroyed because of a “loophole” in a law or ownership.
These people have the right to their land and deserve respect and consideration. Do the socially responsible thing and put yourself in their place, think of the children and their health. Until Weyerhaeuser becomes more responsible, I will not purchase your products either!
October 8th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
i am boycotting all weyerhaeuser products…….your spin is all a “white wash” job…….marjorie paynter
October 8th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
Do what is right.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:18 am
I don’t believe you care. I think you are irresponsibly hiding behind a set of unfortunate formalities. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 12th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Let the Canadian people stop the seal hunt! Then get back to me.
October 12th, 2006 at 11:18 am
Do the right thing! There is a way to log withiut ruining creation. Don’t cut and run. This is the coward’s way. Be a MAN, no matter how painful you think it might be. It really isn’t and you’ll feel a lot better for having done it right.
October 12th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Your total lack of corporate responsibility raises serious concerns about your leadership and the hope that Weyerhaeuser has any interests others than how much bottom line profit they can make without concern for native peoples, community concerns and/or responsible lumbering policies which protect ecology of the land and its inhabitants.
October 13th, 2006 at 4:21 am
It’s time to stop passing the buck and get on with business. Weyerhaeuser, Quadrant and everyone else profiting from resource extraction on aboriginal lands share a responsibility to ensure free, prior and informed consent from the communities in which they operate. I don’t believe you care. I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products.
October 13th, 2006 at 9:43 am
Weyerhauser likes to make people think that it is a caring company when it is so far from that it is UNBELIEVEABLE! When they purchased the rights from Mac Blo they promised to follow their model, Instead they follow their own model, CUT AND RUN! They do nothing but Clearcut and really have shown consistently they care only about MONEY and are run purely on GREED! YOU ARE LIARS!
October 13th, 2006 at 11:01 am
As a builder rest assured I am boycotting Weyerhaeuser products!! Shame on you!!
October 13th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
When corporatations refuse to take the the ethical decisions necessary for the health and protection of our natural resources then as a consumer I will take my loyalty and my buying power to companies that respect the environment and are grateful for our patronage.
October 14th, 2006 at 5:38 am
Please clear your thoughts and actions with the Indigenous Peoples of the lands you are using and have used. This would be the responsible business route to take.
October 16th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
I will be boycotting Weyerhaeuser products until this practice is stopped permanently.
October 16th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
This looks bad – definitely not the no-spin zone on your part. I’m glad that I’m not a shareholder. In the long-run dealing with this bad publicity will cause management distraction from main affairs of company.
October 16th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
I know first hand the despicable logging practices bankrolled by Weyerhaeuser. I was one of hundreds of people who lost value in their home when Weyerhaeuser bankrolled Eagleridge to log the landslides around Aldercrest Washington in the town of Kelso. 126 people lost their homes when they slid or were removed and the rest of us had to continue to live nearby in creaking homes that sink toward cliffs and shave doors that no longer open etc etc. My roof split apart in 7 places and water poured into my home. I called your company before they ever logged there and also brought all the endangered species to the attention of DNR forest offcials and State Wildlife. But Weyerhaeuser is a law unto it’s own. Your attorney’s callous letter stated kind of “so what” “if we didn’t do it someone else would have”. Well it was illegal in DNR forest practices to log landslides, eagle’s trees, pipelines that slid out and were reburied 150 ft deep. And then there were the streams that were clearcut, owl and red tail hawk and red salamander and bear habitat and old growth habitat that we all enjoyed in buffers that were to be protected in city codes. When I looked for another house I found out that you had bankrolled EAgleridge or the Powell family and others to log all sorts of illegal slide areas in our county and other pipeline areas and almost took out a bridge on the pristine Kalama River with it’s salmon hatcheries. Alan Miller of the LA Times Washington DC wrote a few articles intimating mafia connections with Weyerhaeuser and the US Forest Service back in about spring of 97. Then I found out a connection of names, with Mr Curry and the Powells and Dan Dale and others and CT Corporation and Weyerhaeuser and Waterfront Recreation and all sorts of places that you bankroll logging all over the states. I was so hoping Canada could contain your corruption and save itself. How do you live with yourself doing this to the world and it’s people. You are only shortening the lives of your own future grandchildren and great grandchildren by your shortlived greed in sponsoring illegal logging practices and ruining our few giant remaining old growth forests.
October 19th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
I have been fightin Weyerhauser for almost a year.
I am glad they finally realize us, and the we ARE NOT joking. The person who inspired me to first begin to protest Weyerhauser recently passed away, still trying to make their point, and I WILL fight until they are not doing any more distruction.
October 22nd, 2006 at 4:16 pm
reading these opinions, I have been enlightened.Iam disgusted angry disheartened you name it! If a new home of Weyerhouser products (or their ilk) was offered to me free, I would take a tent!!
October 28th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Bravo America! I have seen the devastation by Weyerhaeuser , this company is truly SCUM and all those who manage it. They are the worst case scenario of Corporate greed I have ever witnessed. Most of their products are crap, check out the lawsuits that prove it, I wouldn’t build a house out this crap if they gave it to me. Check out what firefighters have to deal with when this crap burns. Three dead firefighters so far from falling thru fast burning engineered floor joists. Will it come to the point that if you build with this plastic wood , you will not be able to get house insurance. It is costly, labour intensive and it is stolen. Oh yeah it contains Isocyanates, a highly toxic, designated substance in the same catogory as asbestos, arsenic , mercury etc. Don’t believe it? Check out what happened in Bhopal India over 20 years ago. Don’t buy Weyerhaeuser bullS**T and don’t buy their products.
November 9th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
I have learned today that the Weyerhaeuser mill in kenora ontario canada is now down for another two weeks due to no one is buying their timberstrand/ilevel product . This follows being down for 5 weeks in Sept/Oct of this year as well. I spoke with two employees today and they both think that this mill will be down for the count very soon. According to these employees, management has eliminated contractors on site, no one will get any overtime, they are no longer required to work holidays and they do not produce 2 days out of the week when they are running, due to poor markets, the high canadaian dollar and the high cost of wood fibre, electricity, yadda yadda yadda. Maybe no one want’s to buy it because of the reputation Weyerhaeuser has built itself thru its actions and inactions, crimes against the planet, crimes against the people of this planet. Congradulations go out to the 129 workers that were poisoned by Mercury at the Weyerhaeuser Mill in Dryden Ontario who have been awarded Workers Compensation and it only took what 3 or has it been 4 years now. At least they didn’t have to wait 10 years like the 400 workers in North Carolina that Weyerhaeuser poisioned with asbestos. Pure Evil.
November 12th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
I will do what is in my power never to purchase a product produced by weyerhaeuser until the day i die. I will work hard to convice others not to by from those that are killing mother earth. When these people take all thier money and try to purchase a safe place to live, with these people stop and relaize money cannot purchase life and sustainablility.
November 12th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
That is a cop-out. The same thing is happening here in BC. It is like saying that the first nations people can have there land back when the negotiations have successfuly ended, but the animals, birds, plants and trees that are very important to their lives have disappeared, leaving nothing but a dessert.
November 20th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
Yeah, that’s right. Im back.
All y’all are still in action, and so am I.
I have been warning people, telling everyone in my school and having the word spread through the district, telling students and parents alike. Weyerhaeuser is destroying the earth, and man kind alike. One forest at a time. I don’t think you realize, ANIMALS NEED TREES. Animals need trees to live, and HUMANS NEED ANIMALS TO LIVE. Without trees Weyerhaeuser will KILL MAN KIND.
Weyerhaeuser is just a large group of governmental MURDERERS.
With Weyerhaeuser in businness, mankind will DIE. WE NEED TO STOP Weyerhaeuser.
December 9th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Weyerhauser mucky muck Mr. Dennit VP or something or other of Strand Technologies has asked supporters of the mill via a newspaper article to please stop spreading rumours about the local mill here in Kenora Ontario. He has asked that people do not talk about things that they do not know. The Plant Manager Peter Mardon has allegedly stated in a downtown bar several friday nights ago that the people in Kenora have no idea what is going on and that the mill is not going anywhere. Perhaps Mr. Marden thinks that the citizens of Kenora somehow aren’t up to speed. Lets review what we do know, shall we?. Weyerhauser in Kenora has been here for approx. 5 years. According to our former Mayor Dave Canfield the plant has yet to make any money, according to Grassy Narrows First Nation the wood is being stolen, according to Enviromenmtalists Weyerhauser is raping the forest and poisoning the planet.According to published reports and employees production has pretty much been stalled, the yard is full of wood and stacked high with product. According to Fire Fighters this product and product of this nature experience cataclismic failure when exposed to fire. Mould and Fungi are of great concern with engineered lumber, as employyees can attest to as they remove mouldy boards from the wrapped product stored in the yard.Weyerhaeusers Quandrant Homes are lying to the public about their homes being green. Peter Marden Plant Manager has claimed that the mill is running great. What planet are you from or have you just not noticed that your plant is currently on a shut down schedule and press releases from Weyerhauser claims that even more shut downs , complete clousures of their facilities including engineered products may be coming in the near future. Your employees have speculated that there will be lay-offs coming in the new year. Many employees are currently seeking other employment. The work force that initially started at your plant has declined by half,your safety record is not acceptable. You are fighting several wrongful dismissal cases.Your company has been sued up the ying-yang for defective products, fraud, profitteering, enviromental crimes, monopolizing, worker comp claims for poisoning its employees, shall we go on? Well we could but the list of absolute failure by this company is endless, ask the province of Sask. how they faired with Weyerhauser, ask BC. How long is Weyerhaeuser going to pay employyees to go to work and not produce, we all know that this is not good for business.