So, they're burning wood waste? Wouldn't geothermal heating be a bit smarter? This still produces CO2 waste. The government is going to want Carbon Tax if this is the case ...

...300-400 truck loads of bio-mass delivered to the university each year".
How "green" is that?

City resident's are not allowed to istall an EPA Phase 2 Approved Gasification Hydronic Heater with in the City Limits as per the New Clean Air Bylaw, either fueled by pellets or wood. But this is allowed, I fail to see the reasoning and there are obviously double standards. I also see that everyone has jumped on the biofuel enviromental band wagon again when there is good publicity involved. Don't get me wrong, I believe this is a good thing for UNBC and may help to educate people.

Drivechain

I hope they put a new road in to get there! These heavy trucks will certainly pound the crap out of an already potholed road. Never much thought put into anything in this city.

I'm taxinapothole, and that is my oppinion

Sinclar Enterprises is also the parent company of Winton Global. A company that was "indefinitely" shut down almost 2 years ago. A company that most aknowledge
it will never run again. A company where 300 or so former employees have been strung along for almost 2 years with
little or no hope of ever seeing any form
of compensation from any form of severance.
Yes Sinclar Enterprises is a fantastic
coporate citizen, just ask any Winton
Global employee I'm sure they would heartily agree.

Detoe43. Dont mix up good PR with bad PR. These big Corporations do not want to talk about mill closures. Much better to get some free publicity and some **feel good press** by running one truck a day to UNBC. They make money on the trucking because they own Excel Transportation, and they make money on the Hog Fuel, so it is a good deal for them. The publicity is free, and the tax payers pick up the bill. What more could you ask for???

When was the last time you heard one word from a large lumber Corporation about the HST. There is a huge savings for them by the elimination of the PST but they are keeping their mouths shut because if people really knew how bad they are being screwed they would really be peed off. We are talking about a $1.9 Billion savings for Corporations, and a huge increase in taxes for consumers.

Im wondering where the funding came from for a project like this. Is it at the mercy of the Winton Global employees? One would think that the employees would be entitled to a severence package in the tune of over 10 million before Sinclair Enterprise would be funding other projects. What kind of corporate citizen wouldn't put their own employees before venturing out on other projects. As a Winton Global employee we were told if lumber hit over 300.00 per thousand the company would consider starting back up. It has hit that and the export taxes were taken away which is a bonus and still Winton Global has no direction on starting back up. One would have to wonder what the future of Winton Global will be. They have no direction from their upper management ... oh wait, they severenced them all off! So I guess the writing is on the wall. They're toast!!

gives work to truckers

Red1:-"Im wondering where the funding came from for a project like this."
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From the article above:- "Funding has been provided by the Governments of BC and Canada through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program, the Innovative Clean Energy fund, and the BC Public Sector Energy Conservation Agreement."

Your (soon to be increased greatly through the HST) tax-dollars at work, in other words. Not money from Sinclair.

And not even through taxes like the PST we now ALL pay. Not after the HST takes effect, and outfits like Sinclair get to save PST on all their capital costs, and many of their now PST taxable operating ones, too.

Like the monthly hydro bill, for instance. Ours goes up, theirs (courtesy of the HST) goes down. Helps them be "globally competitive", you know.

Things like that should really help them get mills like Winton Global up and running again. Why Pat Bell told us as much himself, just the other day.

Of course a cut in pay, beyond the one the HST has just imposed on all of us, wouldn't hurt either. That'll help us get back to being "Number one" again, you know.

How? Well, don't ask me, I think it's called Liberal Logic. You do more, and get less for it, and that puts you ahead. Somehow.

Kind of like asking the merchant who buys 12 items at $ 1 each, and then advertises they're for sale at $ 10 a dozen how he's going to make any money that way. And he tells you, "Volume". He voted Liberal, too.

As for Sinclair and their ilk, they won't be contributing any tax dollars through PST to any more projects like this ~ even though they're the ones that'll be quite likely to profit most from them.

Maybe they'll even have enough to dough to pay some severence then, if we find Pat was a little too optimistic. Just to help you out with the added costs of living the HST will remove from you.

I think Sinclair Group is waiting till the 2-years is up to pay the severance. Then they can restart the mill as a non union operation or at a lower union employee rate. They wouldn't maintain the mills like they have otherwise.

As for Lakeland they have some of the best hog around. Fully processed right from the mill and none of the big stuff in it one would find at the other mills. Makes perfect sense if you're going to push the newer technologies to be using the best product available for the operation.

Hopefully it all works out... even if its revenue neutral, the jobs generated with bio-fuel far outstrip the jobs generated from equivalent natural gas usage.

Isn't next week or thereabouts the 2-years for Winton Global? I would imagine they will have to do something in the coming weeks? By law they have to pay the severance once I think its 2-years is up if they haven't started up again.

When West Fraser shut down its Kitimat pulp mill, Sinclair Group paid out all its Excel drivers in Terrace their severance right away. In that case they knew it was a definite shut down... its unfortunate Winton Global is stuck in the limbo and hung out to dry like they've been.

Eagleone, mid July for Winton Global's 2 year shutdown anniversary. There has been some rather slimy things happening with some of the former employees. Workers with less than 5 years seniority were given termination notice a few months ago. No
severance...nothing. Just..."You're fired."
Former Winton mid management were treated not a whole lot better. Yep, that Sinclar
Enterprises sure treats their workers well.

Just wait and see the cluster..... that will happen everyday during winter road conditions. How many of Excels loaded trucks have you seen spun out on the Mud river hill in the winter. Peden hill will be a disaster zone. Of course the great job YRB does on Peden hill in the winter will be sure to help prevent all that right?

If I read the article correctly it states that there would be 300 to 400 trucks per year. This means approx one truck per day. Hardly enough to cause any kind of traffic problem.