The
five Mi'kmaq bands in Cape Breton have signed their first forestry agreement
with Port Hawkesbury Paper.
The
agreement with the new owner of the Point Tupper paper mill gives Crown land
harvest quotas to harvesters from the First Nation communities.
Lisa
Young, executive director with the Unima'ki Institute for Natural Resources in
Eskasoni, said she couldn't put an exact number on how much the quotas could
mean for the individual harvesters.
