fw: GP Delivers Solutions To Fletcher-Challenge Shareholders

[ttweed@wildrockies.org (Tony Tweedale)]

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>Subject: GP Delivers Solutions To Fletcher Challenge Shareholders
>Date: Thu, 31 OCT 96 17:24:24 GMT
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>GREENPEACE DELIVERS SOLUTION TO FLETCHER CHALLENGE
>SHAREHOLDERS
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>Press Release
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>Auckland, 31 October 1996 (GP) -- Greenpeace today used its
>address to company directors and shareholders at the 1996
>Fletcher Challenge AGM to urge the company to convert their
>pulp and paper mills to Totally Chlorine-Free (TCF) production
>by the year 2000.
>
>Campaign Director Stephanie Mills presented CEO Hugh Fletcher
>with a bottle of oxygen bleach as the solution to using toxic
>chlorine-based bleaching at its pulp and paper mills in New
>Zealand and Canada, with the message, "the answer is in your
>hands."
>
>The AGM was also addressed by Pouroto Ngaropo of Te Tatau
>Pounamu, a group representing the three tribes from the
>Tarawera River area (Ngati Awa, Ngati Rangitiki and Tuwharetoa
>ki Kawerau) who are calling for zero discharge from FCL's
>Tasman mill at Kawerau by the year 2000.
>
>"Our message was warmly received by shareholders. Many of them
>told us they agree that FCL has a wider responsibility than
>simply making short-term profits," Stephanie Mills said.
>"Chlorine-based bleaching used to be seen as a necessary evil
>by the industry; with the arrival of environmentally safe
>oxygen bleaching it is now an unnecessary evil."
>
>"Pulp and paper companies around the world have faced the same
>choices that FCL does today. Increasingly they are choosing
>Totally Chlorine-Free oxygen bleaching on economic as well as
>environmental grounds," she said.
>
>Greenpeace also released a new report, Pulp Fiction, detailing
>the environmental impact of the Tasman Pulp and Paper mill's
>toxic pollution of the Tarawera River over the past 42 years.
>
>ENDS
>
>Pictures available from FotoPress Auckland on (09) 302 0033;
>copies of Pulp Fiction available from Greenpeace on request.
>
>Contact: Stephanie Mills (09) 630 7317 or (025) 790 817 or
>Glyn Walters (09) 630 6317 or (025) 931 363.
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