AbitibiBowater.Forest-products giant AbitibiBowater announced an end to its logging operations in the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation and vowed to support the community in its struggle for rights over its traditional lands. Grassy Narrows First Nation has fought for more than a decade to suspend industrial logging in A colloquial term for the process of making the initial record of the names of individuals who have been brought to the police station upon their arrest. The process of logging in is also called booking. Whiskey Jack whiskey jack n. See gray jay. [Alteration of whiskey-john, by folk etymology from Cree dialectal wiiskachaan.] Forest near Kenora, and over the past five years, has conducted a blockade blockade, use of naval forces to cut off maritime communication and supply. Blockades may be used to prevent shipping from reaching enemy ports, or they may serve purposes of coercion. The term is rarely applied to land sieges. of the logging road into the area. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AbitibiBowater has also said it will no longer purchase or use any wood products from the Whiskey Jack Forest for its paper mill in Fort Frances Fort Frances, town (1991 pop. 8,891), SW Ont., Canada, on Rainy River, opposite International Falls, Minn. It is chiefly a lumbering center with sawmills and a pulp and paper factory. Tourism is also an important industry, with abundant fishing and hunting nearby. . Greenpeace was quick to congratulate the company on its decision. Greenpeace and other environmental and human rights organizations have campaigned on behalf of the community to help build international public and marketplace pressure for a resolution to Grassy Narrow's concerns about the forestry activity in the territory. |
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