AbitibiBowater's future cutting rights may be at stake if the company doesn't provide greater clarity about its restructuring plans in Quebec, the province warned as rural regions were hit with more mill closures this week. "Before we sign on for the next five years we have to negotiate," said Quebec Environment Minister Claude Béchard, reacting to the forestry company's decision to slash more jobs and close mills, announced Thursday. "I want to meet them, I want to know what is the second phase of their plan, and to make sure they have a good plan, and that Quebec's forests serve for jobs," he said, warning "recess" was over for the forest products company. AbitibiBowater Inc. is shutting down eight more mills across the continent and slashing an estimated 2,600 jobs, including 550 at the century-old Belgo mill in Shawinigan, Que. The Donnaconna mill is closing temporarily, and the idle No. 3 paper machine mill in Gatineau will be shut...