Water resource protection in Alabama: the need for a paradigm change.
INTRODUCTION Few resources are more important to Alabama citizens than the state's abundant rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, and seashores. Alabama has 14 major river basins containing 47,072 miles of perennial rivers and streams and 30,170 miles of intermittent streams. (1) Alabama has ponds, lakes, and reservoirs in...

Appeal for our old growth forests: your help is needed to fight off the threats to destroy our native forests for electricity generation and wood chipping.
RIGHT NOW, MAJOR LOGGING COMPANIES have Australia's ancient forests firmly in their sights. Included are some of the world's tallest trees, important ecosystems for our precious native wildlife and some of the last remaining habitats of their kind on earth. When a logging company goes to work...

Recycling of rigid plastics softens.
Byline: Scott Maben The Register-Guard The recycling rate for rigid plastic containers in Oregon dropped in 2002 to 26.2 percent, barely meeting a state mandate to meet a 25 percent annual recovery rate. The decline reflects an increase in the production of nondeposit, nonreturnable water...

Minerals Technologies buys plant from J.M. Huber. (Industry News).
* Minerals Technologies Inc., New York, purchased J.M. Huber Corp.'s merchant precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant in Hermallesous-Huy, Belgium last month. J.M. Huber had previously acquired the plant in 1998 as part of a multi-plant acquisition from Lhoist S.A. "Sale of this merchant PCC plant is part...

David Massell. Amassing power. (Book Reviews).
David Massell. Amassing Power: J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. ix + 301 pp. $49.95 cloth. Most Canadian historians know the story of the "Fabulous Kingdom of the Saguenay"--the mythical land to the west of the St. Lawrence River,...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Flukes cause fish deformities Uh-oh. It looks like someone will soon be eating crow along with his Willamette River fish. For years, environmental groups have voiced their sky-is-falling scenario regarding deformed fish found in the Willamette River. With characteristic predictability, environmentalists have...

Job security tops worries as CEO of Weyerhaeuser tours Springfield.
Byline: Joe Harwood The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Visiting Weyerhaeuser Co. operations in Lane County on Tuesday and Wednesday, company CEO Steve Rogel heard the same question from just about every worker he ran across. "They all asked, 'What about about my plant, what's going to...

Mill's closure leaves workers empty-handed.
Byline: Karen Mccowan The Register-Guard HALSEY - Karen Koehler can still remember her excitement when Oregon-based Pope & Talbot Co. purchased the pulp mill where her husband, Boyd, has worked for 32 years. "Back in the day, it was a great company to work for,"...

How paper mill wastes may imperil fish.
For years, biologists have observed that some fish downstream of pulp and paper mills reach sexual maturity much later than normal. For the white sucker, a distant relative of the salmon, that delay can be up to 2 years, "effectively reducing its lifetime fecundity by almost 50 percent," notes Glen...

Paper forests.
Billions of trees are being planted to meet the world's soaring appetite for paper, but pulp plantations are hardly forests. Open up International Paper's web page and the first thing you see, in large bold print, is: "We Plant an Average of 50 Million Trees Annually." International Paper bills...