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Crown Forest Utilization – Shareholder Agreements used with Sustainable Forest Licences (cont’d). – Part 3
- 2-19-2020
- By Pilot Law LLP
As part of the process of putting in place a Sustainable Forest Licence having multiple participants, the participants themselves enter into a shareholder agreement, setting out their respective rights and obligations vis-à-vis one another, as shareholders of the licensee, including their respective rights to share the benefits arising from harvesting timber on the Crown…
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Working with First Nations and other Indigenous Communities: eight questions that you need to answer!
- 7-08-2019
- By Pilot Law LLP
Whether you are a business, municipality, financial institution, or investor involved in some aspect of mining, forestry, energy, transportation, or many other fields and you intend to undertake activities on “Crown Land”, and in some cases, private land—you will need to consider the rights and interests of Indigenous people, and…
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We are seeing reports, daily, that demonstrate clearly the inevitability of change in the forest products industry: An area in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas, filled with floating plastic debris and other non-degradable garbage, is growing every year, threatening the health of many marine creatures.
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For most of the past 100 years Ontario’s forest sector has been dominated by the pulp and paper industry. Large companies like Abitibi, Domtar, EB Eddy, Avenor, Boise Cascade, and Great Lakes, that operated many large mills across Northern Ontario, held most of the forest licences, largely controlled the direction,…