Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy Update
[ bach home | newsletter | updates | press releases | email list | links ]
><::><::><::><::><::><::><::><
PACIFIC LUMBER BANKRUPTCY UPDATE
from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
April 10, 2008
><::><::><::><::><::><::><::><
update for Pacific Lumber watchers and redwood fans--
This is a big week for the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case in court
in Corpus Christi, Texas. A hearing (actually a confirmation
trial) has been going on since Tuesday following voting on various
corporate reorganization proposals by the company's creditors.
Below are articles from Humboldt papers from the last couple days.
(Apologies--the hot links function is not working on the webmail I
am sending this from, so paste into your browser.)
***We will send out a wrap up and news of outcomes next week.***
Attorneys for Mendocino Redwood Company start testimony to resolve
PALCO bankruptcy:
http://eurekareporter.com/article/080408-attorneys-for-mendocino-redwood-company
Mendocino Redwood on the stand in Palco case:
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_8874138 :
Lawyers scrutinize MRC in PALCO bankruptcy:
http://eurekareporter.com/article/080409-lawyers-scrutinize-mrc-in-palco-bankruptcy
And for those who really want to steep in the details, you can
listen to reports directly from courts by the Community Forestry
Team's David Simpson on KMUD's news (availabile in mp3) at
http://kmud.org/site001/program-schedule/302.html
STAY TUNED...
More Updates
- Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy Update
2008-05-03 redwoods, MAXXAM, Sierra, Hurwitz, Marathon, Mendocino, Humboldt - Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy, Bohemian Grove Redwoods and Berkeley Oaks
2008-04-05 redwoods oaks Pacific Lumber bankruptcy MAXXAM Humboldt Berkeley - Bankruptcy in the Redwoods, Urban Tree Sit & Great Music
2008-03-07 BACH, Pacific Lumber, MAXXAM, Gary Gates, Funky Nixons, UC Berkeley - Update on Pacific Lumber and Berkeley Oaks
2008-01-03 Headwaters redwoods MAXXAM tree sitters forest defense Humboldt - Grandmothers for the Oaks
2007-12-12 Berkeley Oaks redwoods BACH forest grandmother - Forest Benefit Auction with Food and Music
2007-11-25 Berkeley oaks redwoods humboldt BACH benefit auction forest - Oaks Grove Alert
2007-10-30 Berkeley Oaks treesitters court sports training police headwaters - Pacific Lumber Reorganization and Berkeley Oaks
2007-10-03 Humboldt redwoods Berkeley oaks Pacific Lumber bankruptcy - Berkeley Oaks & Buffalo Field Campaign
2007-09-03 redwoods oaks buffalo berkeley yellowstone ashkenaz - Jackson State Forest
2007-06-25 Jackson State Forest, Old Growth, Clear Cuts, Redwoods - Oak Grove & Transitions
2007-06-22 Oak Grove, Country Joe Macdonald, Kent Stromsmoe, Hal Carlstad, Redwoods - Forest Alert and Update
2007-05-16 Pacific Lumber, bankruptcy, Judi Bari, Endangered Oaks, Marbled Murrelet - Bankruptcy, Oaks & Earth Day
2007-04-05 redwoods, Pacific Lumber, MAXXAM, Earth Day, Berkeley Oaks, Humboldt - Stomp the Stumps
2007-03-10 redwoods benefit music Berkeley oaks Ashkenaz - Forest benefit at Ashkenaz 3/16: Stomp the Stumps!
2007-03-09 WORKINGMAN'S ED, the FUNKY NIXONS and the GARY GATES BAND Forest benefit at Ashkenaz 3/16: Stomp the Stumps! - Upcoming events tree-huggers and forest activists will want to know about
2007-02-23 forest activist pacific lumber berkeley oak tree sit klamath - Forest Update
2007-02-14 pacific lumber oak tree sit berkeley - Pacific Lumber Files for Bankruptcy
2007-01-19 Pacific Lumber Files Bankruptcy Headwaters Preserve - Update on Pacific Lumber and Berkeley Oaks
2007-01-03 Headwaters redwoods MAXXAM bankruptcy tree sitters forest defense - Update on Pacific Lumber and Berkeley Oaks
2007-01-03 Headwaters redwoods MAXXAM treesitters forest defense - Visit the Oak Tree-Sit in Berkeley!
2006-12-11 oak tree-sit berkeley earth first! oak woodland ucb - INVITATION - Please join us to celebrate ACTIVISM at our gala event
2006-11-14 Forest Activist Event Berkeley La Pena Auction - Letters Alert: Endangered Marbled Murrelet Habitat
2006-10-05 endangered marbled murrelet US Fish and Wildlife critical habitat Comment letter redwood forest - Misty Redwood Run
2006-09-06 misty redwood run 10K fun run - buffalo field campaign roadshow
2006-09-05 Buffalo Field Campaign 7th Generation Rise - Giant Sequoia Alert
2006-08-30 giant sequoia logging - Pacific Lumber pres. Robert Manne Resigns
2006-07-26 pacific lumber robert manne resigns - Protest Corporate Lobby meeting in SF!
2006-07-17 Protest corporate lobby American Legislative Exchange Council in San Francisco - Corporate SLAPP suits Against Forest Protesters Begin
2006-03-07 SLAPP suit pacific lumber protester - We cover Hurwitz on Free Speech TV
2006-03-01 Free Speech TV's weekly news magazine, focusing on social justice issues - St. Patrick's Day Benefit: Stomp the Stumps at Ashkenaz
2006-03-01 forest benefit ashkenaz - Message from a Tree Sitter
2006-02-14 pacific lumber old growth nanning creek treesitter - Pacific Lumber Plans to Sell Up to 60,000 acres
2006-02-12 pacific lumber land sale maxxam headwaters - North Coast Forest Update
2006-01-18 Redwoods on radio Hurwitz DeLay Pombo Abramoff Nanning old growth - Logging of Nanning Creek Old Growth
2005-12-13 Nanning Creek Redwoods Marbled Murrelet Humboldt Maxxam - Protest at Senator Feinstein's Office
2005-12-02 Nanning Creek Redwoods Senator Feinstein Emergency Rally - Action Update and Strategy Meeting
2005-11-29 Nanning Creek Ancient Redwood Forest Bonanza Logging Plan - Forest Activist Get-together and Call to Action
2005-11-23 Redwoods Call to Action and Activists Get-together San Francisco Bay Area - Benefit Concert & Silent Auction with Dana Lyons
2005-11-09 Benefit Concert and Silent Auction for the Redwoods with Dana Lyons - Misty Redwood Run
2005-10-14 Misty Redwoods Run. 10K fun run. Redwood Park Oakland. - Endangered Species Act (ESA) Under Attack
2005-09-27 Alert re Pombo Bill to gut the Endangered Species Act, or ESA - pending legislation in Congress to weaken environmental protection - Important Hearing Regarding Headwaters Forest - 9/16 San Francisco
2005-09-14 In 1999 the state and federal government completed a deal with the Pacific Lumber Company to purchase roughly 7,500 acres of Headwaters Forest in Humboldt County near Eureka - Water Board's Sept. hearing in Fortuna
2005-08-29 Water Board's Sept. hearing in Fortuna Palco's Watershed-wide Waste Discharge Requirements permits for Freshwater and Elk River - Bad News from Texas: Judge Gives Millions to Hurwitz; New Campaign to End Clear Cutting
2005-08-24 federal judge issued an order for the FDIC to pay Charles Hurwitz up to $72 million, sanctioning the federal agency for its lawsuits against Hurwitz. CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT CLEAR CUTTING - Update on Maxxam manipulations
2005-08-02 Maxxam Corp. has offered terms to the bondholders of its financially troubled timber company, Pacific Lumber subsidiary Scotia Pacific, various stakeholders have focused their attention on discussions - Comment on Limits on Logging Proposal
2005-07-28 Comment on Limits on Logging Proposal - Maxxam/PL (Scotia Pacific) barely avoids bankruptcy
2005-07-19 Maxxam/PL (Scotia Pacific) barely avoids bankruptcy - Please Comment: Endangered Habitat On the Chopping Block
2005-06-27 Charles Hurwitz Maxxam Pacific Lumber State Water Quality Control Board from logging his desired volume of trees in the Elk River and Freshwater Creek watersheds - Water Board hearing tomorrow, old growth hikes, other news re. Pacific Lumber
2005-06-15 REMINDER-- - Forest Update
2005-03-30 Water Board caves to PL pressure despite rivers of evidence Pepper Spray by Q-tip civil rights trial nears, trial-related events in Bay Area Forest activist get-together next week (April 7) Day of Action for forests at Victoria's Secret April 14 - Hearing re. PL logging before Water Board CHANGED
2005-03-15 March 10, we alerted this list regarding the Wednesday, March 16 North Coast Regional - Big Timber's Last Stand. PL vs. Water Board
2005-03-14 Latest Tree War Pits Pacific Lumber's Logging Plan Against an - Public hearing on Maxxam/PL logging MARCH 16
2005-03-11 The hearing will begin at 9 am. Come early to get a seat! We recommend being there by 8 am. See http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast - Water Board OKs Fifty Percent of PL's Logging in Disputed Watersheds
2005-02-26 Water Board OKs 50 percent of PL's Logging in Disputed Watersheds - Pacific Lumber: It keeps heating up
2005-02-21 REDCREST, Calif. - Whenever Pacific Lumber Co. planned to dispatch helicopters forest activist - Pls. comment: SPI proposes giant clearcut in old growth
2005-02-18 comment SPI proposes giant clearcut in old growth - article on Maxxam/PL
2005-02-18 Eureka Reporter, an interview with the president of the Humboldt Watershed Council. - Eureka Reporter on Palco
2005-02-10 North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, and separately with PALCO's bank lender - Maxxam tries extortion to get logging approved-Letters needed
2005-01-31 Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Tries to Extort More Logging Plans at Top Levels of State Government - Protect endangered Forests and Wildlife. Comments Needed by February 1
2005-01-25 timber industry's American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) Green Building Council AF&PA's "business as usual" Sustainable Forestry Initiative - MATTOLE TREE-SITTERS' GEAR BURNED. DEFENDERS NEED YOUR SUPPORT
2005-01-13 Mattole tree-sits are in a logging plan (THP 1-03-235-"Foxtrot") in the upper Rattlesnake Creek drainage - Pacific Lumber Poised to Log Ancient Redwoods Adjacent to Avenue of the Giants
2004-11-20 Timber Harvest Plan (1-04-220 HUM)Logging Forest Redwood - 2nd annual Silent Auction and Celebration of Forest Activism
2004-11-19 auction forest headwaters - PL & state ordered to pay $6 million on SYP case
2004-09-30 Pacific Lumber pay 6 million on SYP case headwaters - Ancient Redwoods on Gypsy Mt. Cut by PL - 4 arrested
2004-09-27 Ancient Redwood Trees Cut On Gypsy Mountain Tree Sitters Extracted; Four Arrested - Pepper Spray By Q-Tip Trial Ends in Jury Deadlock
2004-09-23 Pepper Spray By Q-Tip Trial Ends in Jury Deadlock - Pepper Spray Trial delayed ONE DAY
2004-09-02 Pepper Spray Trial delayed ONE DAY - Headwaters pepper spray trial coming (back) to SF
2004-08-20 Humboldt county sheriff deputies forced pepper spray into the eyes of non-violent Headwaters Forest activists with Q-tips - A BILL TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA'S OLD-GROWTH TREES IS STUCK IN A
2004-08-16 SB 754, the Heritage Tree Preservation Act, will permanently protect the last of California's old-growth trees on nonfederal land, including Coast redwoods, Douglas-firs and Giant sequoias. Less than one percent of these ancient giants remain, yet they are still being logged. This bill will protect these trees - Letters needed on Ancient Tree bill
2004-07-26 Letters needed on Ancient Tree bill Urge the Assembly Appropriations Committee to Approve SB 754 - Ancient Tree bill passes committee!
2004-06-15 Ancient Tree bill sb754 Assembly Natural Resources Committee - Urgent alert on old growth bill--please act
2004-06-11 Assembly Natural Resources Committee will vote on the Heritage Tree Preservation Act SB 754 - AN ALERT ON THE ANCIENT TREES LEGISLATION
2004-03-25 The Heritage Tree Preservation Act is alive and kicking! We have never been so close to protecting California's old-growth trees, but we need your help to make it a reality! Please join us in Sacramento on Wednesday, April 14th for Old-Growth Lobby Day. You can sign up at www.ancienttrees.org. - FOREST BENEFIT Mark your calendars for FRIDAY APRIL 2...and we aren't fooling!
2004-03-23 6th annual STOMP the STUMPS benefit dance party Ashkenaz Earth First - Your help is urgently needed to protect a very special redwood forest
2004-03-11 Citizen lawsuits have halted logging for the last 4 years. Now, we are on the verge of permanently protecting Jackson State Forest - The people spoke! Maxxam did not succeed in booting the District Attorney of Humboldt county out of office in a very dirty recall campaign.
2004-03-04 Gallegos Headwaters Forest Palco Maxxam Corp recall. - Increased harassment of Humboldt DA-second break-in at his house
2004-02-23 Pacific Lumber and their spooks step up the campaign against the DA who is trying to bring them to justice - News Alert from the Redwoods
2004-02-06 Maxxam's Pacific Lumber is financing 93 percent of the campaign to recall Humboldt County (CA) District Attorney Paul Gallegos in the last reporting period. D.A. Gallegos filed a $250 million lawsuit against Pacific Lumber, alleging fraud - Tree-sitter at State Capitol in Sacramento lobbies for bill
2004-02-05 A man named Bear climbed a tree outside the California State Capitol today to raise awareness for SB 754, the Heritage Tree Act, which has been held up by the State Assembly's Natural Resources Committee. - Challenge to Pacific Lumber's recall campaign needs support
2004-01-22 This is an alert about the outrageous recall effort underway, largely financed by Maxxam/Pacific Lumber to oust the Humboldt county District Attorney Paul Gallegos, who filed a fraud legal case against PL a number of months ago. (See story in our last newsletter, on our website, for background). - Jackson State Forest needs your letters NOW!
2004-01-21 California state law now says that Jackson State Forest shall be logged for maximum timber production! This must be changed if our public forest is to be saved for our children! - MAXXAM AND PACIFIC LUMBER'S BANKROLLING OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY RECALL
2003-02-25 Houston-based Maxxam Corp., parent company of Pacific Lumber Co., this week put another $75,000 into the recall of District Attorney Paul Gallegos.
updates /
[ bach home | newsletter | updates | press releases | email list | links ]