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A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Texas said on Tuesday he would appoint a mediator to try to hammer out a deal on the fate of 29,000 acres of giant, 2,000-year-old California redwood trees, which environmentalists and loggers battled over in the 1990s. U.S. Judge Richard Schmidt expressed frustration at the slow pace Maxxam Inc. subsidiary Pacific Lumber Co. was moving since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January. Schmidt issued his decision on Tuesday night in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Southern District of Texas at Corpus Christi after a daylong hearing. “I’m going to put this on short-fuse mediation,” Schmidt said. Charles Hurwitz, chairman and chief executive of Houston-based Maxxam, became the target of protestors who lived in California redwoods to prevent Pacific Lumber from cutting them down in the 1990s. Pacific Lumber signed a 1998 agreement with the state of California and the U.S. government to protect nearly 8,000 acres of timberland including old-growth redwoods as habitat for an endangered Pacific Coast bird the Marbled Murrelet. Pacific Lumber filed for bankruptcy protection because of its inability to pay on $714 million in bonds. The company has taken on more debt to continue operating while working out of the bankruptcy. Source: Reuters
A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Texas said on Tuesday he would appoint a mediator to try to hammer out a deal on the fate of 29,000 acres of giant, 2,000-year-old California redwood trees, which environmentalists and loggers battled over in the 1990s.
U.S. Judge Richard Schmidt expressed frustration at the slow pace Maxxam Inc. subsidiary Pacific Lumber Co. was moving since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January.
Schmidt issued his decision on Tuesday night in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Southern District of Texas at Corpus Christi after a daylong hearing.
“I’m going to put this on short-fuse mediation,” Schmidt said.
Charles Hurwitz, chairman and chief executive of Houston-based Maxxam, became the target of protestors who lived in California redwoods to prevent Pacific Lumber from cutting them down in the 1990s.
Pacific Lumber signed a 1998 agreement with the state of California and the U.S. government to protect nearly 8,000 acres of timberland including old-growth redwoods as habitat for an endangered Pacific Coast bird the Marbled Murrelet. Pacific Lumber filed for bankruptcy protection because of its inability to pay on $714 million in bonds. The company has taken on more debt to continue operating while working out of the bankruptcy.
Source: Reuters
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