Julius Bloedel, was a Seattle lawyer, who originally hailed from Wisconsin. In 1911 he and two partners, John Stewart and Patrick Welch, came to Canada and began acquiring large blocks of forests on British Columbia's Vancouver Island. Their Franklin River logging camp soon became one of the world’s largest logging operations. Here, in the 1930s, the Canadian logging industry saw its first steel spar and chainsaw.
In the 1950's Bloedel's company merged with the HR MacMillan Company to form one of the largest forest products companies in the world. MacMillan-Bloedel or Mac-Blo as some called it, was eventually taken over by Weyerhaeuser in 2000.
Greenpeace announced today that MacMillan Bloedel is pursuing a lawsuit, injunction and restraining order to try to stop Greenpeace protests about the clearcutting of the temperate rainforest.
"MacMillan Bloedel is the #1 rainforest destroyer in Canada and we pledge to stop this destruction.
In response to MacMillan Bloedel's claims that they are acting out of concern for the safety of the activists, Karen Mahon, Greenpeace forests campaigner named in the lawsuit said, "I do not believe that suing a single mother of one for trying to save the rainforest is motivated by 'safety concerns'.
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