{"id":67730,"date":"2024-11-20T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=67730"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:21:38","slug":"greenpeace-canada-reaction-to-jackson-wijaya-becoming-the-beneficial-owner-of-both-domtar-formerly-paper-excellence-and-asia-pulp-and-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/67730\/greenpeace-canada-reaction-to-jackson-wijaya-becoming-the-beneficial-owner-of-both-domtar-formerly-paper-excellence-and-asia-pulp-and-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Canada reaction to Jackson Wijaya about to become the beneficial owner of both Domtar, formerly Paper Excellence, and Asia Pulp and Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In reaction to Jackson Wijaya <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fsc.org\/en\/newscentre\/integrity-and-disputes\/fsc-statement-on-app-moving-under-ownership-of-jackson-wijaya-the\"><strong>becoming the beneficial owner<\/strong><\/a><strong> of both Domtar, formerly known as Paper Excellence, and Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), Priyanka Vittal, Legal Counsel, Greenpeace Canada, said:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cGreenpeace Canada has been sounding the alarm about the relationship between Paper Excellence and Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) for years now. Despite Paper Excellence\u2019s constant denial regarding its relationship with APP, the elusive Jackson Wijaya has become the beneficial sole owner of both Domtar, formerly known as Paper Excellence, and Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) making the link undeniable. This is extremely concerning to us given APP\u2019s poor environmental and human rights record.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Paper Excellence, which has rebranded under Domtar, is now the largest logging company in the entire country having gobbled up many of Canada\u2019s private and publicly traded logging companies. This has happened under the nose of the Competition Bureau and the Canadian government and we are left scratching our heads how the government and regulators have outright given control of 22 million hectares of forests to a monopoly that has so far acted with little transparency. <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Beyond the obvious economic concerns, our forests are in crisis and now we\u2019ve handed over ownership of them to a notoriously private family whose past environmental record leaves us deeply concerned about the future of Canada\u2019s forests and the communities and ecosystems that rely on them.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Dina Ni, Communications Campaigner, Greenpeace Canada,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dina.ni@greenpeace.org\">dina.ni@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +1 416 820 2148<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Paper Excellence\u2019s constant denial regarding its relationship with APP, the elusive Jackson Wijaya has become the beneficial sole owner of both Domtar and Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) making the link undeniable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":61207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"Greenpeace Canada reaction to Jackson Wijaya about to become the beneficial owner of both Domtar, formerly Paper Excellence, and Asia Pulp and Paper","p4_og_description":"Despite Paper Excellence\u2019s constant denial regarding its relationship with APP, the elusive Jackson Wijaya has become the beneficial sole owner of both Domtar and Asia Pulp and Paper making the link undeniable. 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