Mercury Paper Fact Sheet

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Virginian’s are being subjected to a misinformation campaign run by radical environmental group Greenpeace that demonizes and spreads dishonest information about Mercury Paper, a company that has brought needed investment and jobs to the community of Strasburg, Virginia, USA.

This is a calculated effort to end free-market practices and malign Mercury Paper by vested and entrenched interests with little regard to the impact it will have on the hardworking Virginians whom call Mercury Paper home and a job.

This is part of the organization’s longstanding goal of ending commercial forestry, and to advance its political agenda that puts at risk economic growth and development, sustainable forest management and job and wealth creation in places abroad, and right here at home in Virginia.

What Mercury Paper Means for Virginia:

• The plant will be the U.S. headquarters for the Mercury Paper, creating 150 new jobs for a region that saw unemployment hit a high of 9.7 percent earlier this year.

• Mercury Paper invested over $21 million in the Strasburg facility, and was opened less than one-month ago by Governor Bob McDonnell.

• These jobs, and the additional employment that will be created through the use of the Virginia Inland Port Authority, were reason for the $250,000 grant issued by the Governor’s Opportunity Fund to assist the region.

• Mercury Paper products are produced and sourced from sustainable and renewable fibers.

• New jobs will support families, while the taxes paid by workers and businesses will support education, police and fire protection and other essential government services, reducing the need for service cuts or consideration of economically damaging tax increases.
Greenpeace Quick Facts:

• Greenpeace has no regard for the needs of people. Their own Rolf Skar stated, “of course, Virginians need new jobs,” but the new jobs must not come as a result of “reckless actions on the other side of the planet.”

• Greenpeace is an anti-business political group that seeks to vilify free enterprise in the US and abroad.

• Greenpeace is anti-American, and activists from the organization were arrested and charged after illegally hanging a banner on Mount Rushmore, a treasonous act that shows contempt and disregard for America.

• Greenpeace claims to be a non-profit charity, but has lost its charitable status in New Zealand and in Canada.