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> Greenpeace to U.S. Potter fans: Buy Canadian

> Last Updated Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:52:51 EDT

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> Greenpeace and the U.S. National Wildlife Federation are urging U.S.

> fans planning to buy the new Harry Potter book later this week to buy

> Canadian.

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> In a campaign called Save Muggle Forests (referring to Harry Potter

> author J.K. Rowling's creative term for non-magical humans), the two

> environmental groups are protesting the fact that Scholastic - the

> U.S. publisher of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - has not

> used 100 per cent recycled paper. Canadian publisher Raincoast has.

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> A worker prepares to ship copies of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood

> Prince' from Amazon.com's shipping facility in Nevada. More that 1.2

> million orders have been received for the J.K. Rowling book worldwide.

> (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) .

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> " We're really urgingpeople to buy the Raincoast version, rather than

> the Scholastic version, " Greenpeace spokesperson Pamela Wellner told

> the Associated Press Monday.

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> " We really feel that people can vote with their dollar and support a

> publisher that did the right thing. "

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> The campaign is part of a larger project urging publishers around the

> world to switch to recycled paper. While many publishing companies in

> Canada and Europe have switched over, Wellner said, their U.S.

> counterparts lag behind.

> Raincoast began using 100 per cent recycled paper with the publication

> of 2003's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Although it has

> increased publishing costs, the company has said that the move saved

> the equivalent of 30,000 trees and about 8,500 kg of greenhouse gas

> emissions.

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> In a statement on its website, Raincoast says it cannot endorse sale

> of its products in markets where it does not hold copyright.

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> Scholastic has rejected the environmental groups' accusation that it

> is helping destroy forests and says it does use some recycled

> material, although a spokesperson would not reveal what percentage.

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> " We do not use any paper that uses fibre from ancient forests, ever,

> not only in the Harry Potter books but also in all the other materials

> that we produce, " said Scholastic representative Kyle Good. " So we're

> not endangering forests. "

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> Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the highly anticipated sixth

> instalment of the seven-book series about the titular boy wizard, is

> scheduled for release Saturday.

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> Book accidently sold last week in B.C.

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> On Saturday, the British Columbia Supreme Court granted Raincoast an

> injunction barring anyone from leaking the plot of the new book, after

> a Real Canadian Superstore in Coquitlam, B.C. accidentally put out

> copies for sale Thursday.