Canada backs paper mills

The Canadian government is making over £500m available to the countries pulp and paper makers to aid environmental initiatives.

To qualify for the funding, companies working in the paper industry must undertake projects such as upgrading co-generation units, improving the energy efficiency of recovery boilers and producing ethanol from forest biomass.

The Forest Products Association of Canada welcomed the announcement.
"This will save jobs and help us maintain our edge as the 'greenest' suppliers of pulp in the world," it said. "Canadian pulp and paper mills have already dramatically reduced fossil fuel use and in a precedent-setting effort, have succeeded in ensuring 60 per cent of their energy supply is from renewable fuels."