Filmmaker exposes corporate capture in forestry in N.B.
The result: a popular web series documenting decades of forest mismanagement and what he calls “corporate capture” of our forest.
Thériault’s impression that all was fine in New Brunswick’s woods was
shattered when he met a 26-year-old man who had tried to commit
suicide. The man was $1 million in debt, a debt he had accrued from
working as a contractor, cutting wood for J.D. Irving, the largest
forestry player in the province. According to Thériault, the contractors
are in a perpetual debt cycle of taking out loans to buy new machines.