SBTi has approved Cascades' updated 2035 climate targets. The company aims to cut combined Scope 1 and 2 emissions 67.2% from 2019 levels and Scope 3 emissions 41.3% across four categories, including purchased goods and end-of-life treatment. Scope 1 and 2 emissions were already down 32.6% by 2025 (Paper Advance, PULPAPERnews)
Domtar has named Craig Helgeson general manager of its Nekoosa, Wis. mill. Port Hawkesbury Paper has promoted Bruno D'Amato to director of Canadian and specialty paper sales, and he will also stay on as technical field sales manager (Paper Advance, Paper Advance)
Forestry & Timber
On Oct. 9 a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel reversed a summary judgment that Alliance for the Wild Rockies had won against the Hanna Flats Good Neighbor Authority logging project in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest. The lower court had found the project broke road limits near a Selkirk grizzly recovery zone. The panel sent the case back to the magistrate judge in Boise to decide whether the project actually caused the excess road miles (Courthouse News)
Madison's Lumber Prices Index fell US$5 (−1%) to US$500/mfbm for the week ending Oct. 9, down 3% from a month earlier (Madison's)
Boeing-backed ARC Bio has upgraded fast-pyrolysis oil made from Canadian forest residues, produced at Bioénergie AECN in Port-Cartier, Que., in a pilot fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit and recovered a jet-range fraction for SAF blending tests. Quebec developments could eventually make about 10M gal/yr of SAF, though the pathway is not yet qualified for commercial aviation (Paper Advance)
