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Environmentalists upset over logging in moratorium area

The agreement, made in 2010 between environmental groups and 19 forestry companies, included a moratorium on logging 70 million acres of boreal forest between British Columbia and Newfoundland for three years while a permanent protection plan for woodland caribou was agreed upon. The plan never materialized.

FPAC spokesperson Kate Lindsay said the logging was not done by a company that signed the 2010 agreement.

Read the full article by The Canadian Press in the National Post.