{"id":343,"date":"2015-03-19T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ua-green.org\/?p=343"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:14:10","slug":"english-fsc-wants-resolute-to-back-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ua-green.org\/en\/english-fsc-wants-resolute-to-back-off.html","title":{"rendered":"FSC wants Resolute to back off"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/ua-green.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/012.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ua-green.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/012.jpeg\" alt=\"01\" width=\"568\" height=\"277\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ua-green.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/012.jpeg 568w, https:\/\/ua-green.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/012-300x146.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ua-green.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/012-100x49.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/ua-green.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/012-158x77.jpeg 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Forest Stewardship Council wants Resolute Forest Products to stop attacking the credibility of its audit process.<br \/>\nIn a letter to Resolute president Richard Garneau, FSC has requested that the company stop its \u201cactivities against FSC.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The letter follows many months of repeated public attacks by Resolute on FSC\u2019s management and policies, after the suspension of Resolute\u2019s FSC certificates, the council says.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, FSC director general Kim Carstensen cites a number of Resolute press releases and comments by company officials that attack the governance of FSC and the audit process\u2019s fairness and impartiality, and portray the FSC as non-credible, risky and biased towards certain interest groups. The letter also took issue with Resolute insinuations that the suspensions of the company\u2019s FSC certificates were tainted from improper pressure from Greenpeace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, these incidents can no longer be tolerated,\u201d Carstensen says in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Resolute spokesman Seth Kursman could not be reached Wednesday for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Resolute Forest Products reached a truce with the Rainforest Alliance, a third-party group that conducts audits of compliance with Forest Stewardship Council standards.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal-based company settled a lawsuit it filed last May that sought $400,000 in damages over audits of its forests in Northern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The company claimed last year\u2019s audits that resulted in the suspension of FSC certificates in two forests were biased interpretations that contained errors and omissions.<\/p>\n<p>Under terms of the settlement, a new independent audit team will conduct a fresh review of the Black Spruce-Dog River Matawin forest near Thunder Bay within six months. A summary of the report findings will be released publicly, unlike those of the contested audits that have been sealed by an Ontario court judge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclejournal.com\/content\/news\/local\/2015\/03\/19\/fsc-wants-resolute-back\">chroniclejournal.com<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forest Stewardship Council wants Resolute Forest Products to stop attacking the credibility of its audit process. 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