Few British Columbia communities have been hit as hard by the forest industry crisis as Mackenzie.
Some 1,500 jobs, by mayor Stephanie Killam’s estimate, have been lost in the community as sawmills, planer mills and pulp and paper mills closed. With hundreds of good paying mill jobs gone, jobs in related service industries have disappeared at [...]
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Where's Our Danny Boy (2)? Mayor of embattled town weighs in on needed forest reforms
May 11th, 2009 · Ben Parfitt · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Municipalities
Tags: Canfor·Danny Williams·Interfor·Mackenzie·Newfoundland·pulp and paper·unemployment·West Fraser
Pining for some straight talk
March 6th, 2009 · Ben Parfitt · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability
BC Forests Minister Pat Bell grabbed plenty of headlines this week when he said that the threats posed to resource communities by the mountain pine beetle infestation may be overstated. Stories about a rapid deterioration in the quality of trees attacked by the beetles, Bell suggested, are wrong. In fact, the minister said, he expects [...]
Where’s Our Danny Boy?
February 23rd, 2009 · Ben Parfitt · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability
Give Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams credit for leading by example and doing what no BC politician in recent years had the guts to do: force the issue on what, exactly, the public deserves by way of public returns from publicly owned resources.
Williams’ well publicized decision in December to yank back AbitibiBowater’s public timber and hydro [...]
Tags: Danny Williams·forestry·free trade·Mackenzie·Newfoundland·pulp and paper
