Area NDP MLAs plan to fight © Orenda sell plan NORTHWESTERN MLAs are vowing to fight a buyout proposal that would see Orenda Forest Products timber north of Mezladin feed a mothballed new- sprint mill on Vancouver Island. “I want local resources to employ local peole,’’ said Skeena NDP. MLA Helmut Giesbrecht. , “I don’t have a lot of sympathy for southem operations that are finding themselves {n'a fibre cmunch,’” “T think we've been feeding the economies of the southem part of the province long enough,” North Coast MLA and former forests minister Dan Miller echoed those sentiments and ex- pressed doubts that the syndicate involved is even capable of doing what it claims. “They're not in the pulp busi- ness, they’re not in the forest business. They're in the business of picking up bad debts and trying to improve it to the point of tuming a profit,” Miller said, “T’ve never seen an.operation run by a bank or by a vulture fund have any chance of success,” - Giesbrecht said the whole issue . casts a great deal of doubt on :Orenda’s paper mill proposal for this area, and indeed on whether the company was ever that serious about the proposal. “At this point it’s not that ob- vious that Orenda ever intended 0 build a processing facility,’ ‘Giesbrecht said. Miller says Orenda now has an obligation to come back to north- westemers and provide an expla- nation for what’s happened to its proposed paper mill. ‘‘When lobbying for plans to be approved, Orenda went to the citizens of the northwest and asked them to lobby on its behalf. I recall meeting with citizens, with the mayor of Terrace, who lobbied very hard for this mill. Planner | wanted ! CITY STAFF are sorting through 81 applications that , have come in for the position | of city planner. The job has been vacant since Marvin Kamenz left two and a half years aga, with planning department work being done by planning tech- nician Jack Hepplewhite. City council had been con- tent to have the position remain vacant up until this year. But Heppelwhite has an- nounced this’Il be his last year with the city. City officials are now com- piling a short Hist of potential candidates. ; Interviews will be scheduled after that. Helmut Giesbrecht _ Dan Miller “Ts there not an obligation for them to go back to those citizens and tell them?”’ Giesbrecht's pushing for public Meetings into the pending forest licence transfer. 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