Catalyst Paper Named to Best 50 Canadian Corporate Citizens List

Catalyst Paper, Richmond, B.C., Canada, has been named one of the top 20 overall best corporate citizens in Canada by Corporate Knights in its "2011 Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada" list. Corporate Knights magazine was founded in 2002 to raise awareness of sustainability issues and is distributed quarterly as an insert to the Globe and Mail.

Catalyst was also named to the "2011 Maclean's/Jantzi-Sustainalytics" list of the 50 Most Socially Responsible Corporations in Canada. The honor is based on the company's environmental, social, and governance performance, and for what Jantzi-Sustainalytics recognizes as "Catalyst's commitment to developing and implementing sustainability policies and practices."

Catalyst President and CEO Kevin J. Clarke notes that "these are tremendous honors, and a great many people in and around Catalyst share in their achievement. We know the importance to our company, our customers, and especially our employees and communities of making environmental, social, and governance considerations part of our overall business strategy and everyday operation. We made a commitment, for instance, to the World Wildlife Fund to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at our B.C. operations by 70% between 1990 and 2010, and we delivered. In 2010, direct GHG emissions from our B.C. operations were down 85% on an absolute basis."

The honors also reflect Catalyst's ongoing engagement with partners and organizations. These include the World Wildlife Fund, the Forest Stewardship Council, Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, Smartway, a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, GreenBlue Institute, the Coast Forest

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