Annual Cut Increased For Terrace TFL
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 12:16 PM
Terrace, B.C. – The allowable annual cut for Tree Farm Licence 41 increases slightly by four per cent to 128,000 cubic metres effective immediately, chief forester Jim Snetsinger announced today.
Tree farm licence 41, owned by Skeena Sawmills Ltd. is about 40 kilometres south of Terrace and covers 201,939 hectares, with 31,558 hectares suitable for timber harvesting. The majority of the forest is coastal western hemlock.
Chief forester Jim Snetsinger says "While there are many factors I consider in making my determination, in this case, because of the stable timber supply, the increase is due to the fact that trees dead prior to harvest now count towards the annual volume that licence holders are allowed to cut. This increase aligns the allowable annual cut with this cut control requirement."
Quick Facts:
* The chief forester’s determination is an independent professional judgment based on information ranging from technical forestry reports, First Nations and public input to the government’s social and economic goals.
* Under the timber supply review, the chief forester or deputy chief forester must determine how much wood can be harvested in each of the province’s 38 timber supply areas and 34 tree farm licences at least once every 10 years.
* A new allowable annual cut may be determined earlier in response to abnormal situations, or postponed for up to five years if an allowable annual cut level is not expected to change significantly.
Comments
4% is not a lot but is Skeena logging 100% now and has the capacity to handle the increase? Being in Terrace the elephant in the room is the raw log export. I hope that’s not where this is going while Quesnel is having their AAC cut.
West Fraser sold Skeena Sawmills Ltd, to ROC Holdings in July of this year.
Anyone know who ROC Holdings are???
roc holdings chinese company too bad there are no mills in the area roc is a pawn for a huge chinese company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China
http://m.gowlings.com/RepresentativeWork/case.asp?caseID=342
On July 19, 2011, Roc Holdings Ltd. completed its purchase of the Skeena Sawmills Division from West Fraser Mills Ltd. (TSX: WFT). The Skeena Sawmills Division includes the Terrace sawmill and related Crown timber tenures in British Columbia. The Terrace sawmill has a single shift capacity of 90 million board feet per year.
Roc Holdings is a private company whose principals have experience in building materials, development and international trade. It is the BC affiliate of a substantial private conglomerate in China.
Roc Holdings was advised in this transaction by Gowlings with a team from the Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto offices led by Jack Yong (corporate/M&A, real estate) and including Peter Fairey (corporate/M&A), John McLean (forestry), Geoff Howard (employment), Ron Snyder (labour), Harry Dahme (environmental), Cynthia Westaway (aboriginal) and Scott Ferguson (corporate/M&A).
It may be called Skeena “Sawmills”, but the sawmill hasn’t operated for 5 yrs. So obviously the timber isn’t for the mill.
Very interesting. Much like Sun Wave Forest Products, fronted for a Chinese conglomerate to purchase the Skeena Kraft Pulp Mill in Watson Island (:Pr Rupert). The pulp mill never opened, and the TFL around Carnaby, and Kitwanga BC was signed over to the First Nations, the logs of course go to China.
When can we expect some real, boni fide Canadian investors to invest some money in their Country and create some jobs??? Seems to me this would go a long way to solving some of our problems.
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