Time Winding Down to Closure of Canfor Quesnel Mill
Quesnel, B.C.- There are just about two weeks left before the Canfor mill in Quesnel will close its doors.
A lot has been done since Canfor and West Fraser announced they would be exchanging timber licences and each closing a mill as a result of dwindling timber supply.
The City of Quesnel, local and regional service providers and the Province, continue to work together to assist those who will be hit by the closure of the mill in Quesnel.
The work to date has focused on supporting workers to transition and upgrade their skills and the region to diversify its economy through a number of initiatives including:
- Connecting workers with other opportunities in the community and region;
- Providing workers with skills training and retraining through the Northern Skills Training Pilot Program;
- Hosting an economic development for local leaders workshop on March 27, 2014, and a land development workshop later in the spring in Quesnel;
- Organizing a job fair for April 3, 2014;
- Organizing a business walk on March 26, 2014, to support small business
The closure of the Canfor mill will directly impact 209 employees at that facility, but will have a significant impact on businesses which offer support to that mill from harvesters to truckers, equipment and fuel suppliers and everyone in between.
The Canfor Quesnel sawmill is expected to close during the week of March 17th. West Fraser predicts the closure of its Houston mill will be complete by the end of the 2nd quarter. The closure of the West Fraser Houston mill will directly impact 225 employees.
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Call “Dick Harris” – he is an authority on everything – maybe his hopes and dreams could work here.
Makes it particularly sad that the Prosperity Mine project is dead again. Would have been a great opportunity for Quesnel workers and businesses. Cheers to the bozo art students and lefties again for showing us who’s boss.
Agree Contractor, however was the right wing that had the ability to do the right thing and failed us… they are just playing politics’ not dealing with reality or the facts. Watch for approval of Gateway pipeline that’s the trade off and we get screwed in the process
I believe it was the natives who use the lake who were the loudest protesters, not sure how many of them are bozo art students, and not sure what art students have to do with this, unless of course you are simply using a cliché characterization stereotype. But I am sure you wouldn’t do that, right?
Use the lake? Seriously now, it’s a slough. You got Chief Alphonse and a radical environmentalist holding the cariboo hostage. Taseko spent 300 million saving fish “lake” in the new plan. If we valued all the teeny sloughs at 300 million we would be rich indeed.
The JRP couldn’t even accept that ponds in the 1990s, let alone the 2010s have till liners. This refusal is tripe and is nothing but a sacrificial lamb for enbridge. Makes me want to protest the pipeline.
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