A16 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 29, 2005

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IT’S BEEN nearly four years since logs have been unloaded at:the former New
Skeena log yard, but trucks laden with saw, logs are arriving to the Terrace Lumber -
Company’s mill on a regular basis. The company still needs to establish a reliable .
‘log supply béfore operations here.can start.’ "SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO

Mill start-up hinges —
on steady log supply |

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By SARAH. A. ZIMMERMAN

NEWS. that’: ‘Coast Tsimshian "Resources |

» Ltd, a company, wholly owned by the Lax |
Kw’ alaams- ‘first. nation, has been given the -
Forest License comes as good news to the -
Terrace Lumber Company.

The sale, which i is still subject to the ful-
- filment of certain conditions, -means 650, 000 .
-cubic-metres of fibre that has been tied up in -
- court proceeding, ‘relating to the bankruptcy ©

of New Skeena Forest Products may soon be ;
) ' and Kitsumkalum bands, both of which hold.

available on the market. * ;
Anda steady. supply of fibre: is exactly.
~ what the local sawmill needs in order to start .
_ up its operations here. TLC officials are not.
committing themselves to an exact opening |

. date, saying” they need to make sure their”
looking at three, four, five suppliers and draw

_ log. supply is reliable ‘and consistent before.
they'll get the mill running. Though there .is
roughly. 10,000. cubic metres of wood in the ,
TLC. yard, company ‘president Mo Takhar.
says it needs to'sees 32-35 logging trucks of

“sy wood | per day in order to run the mill. ona

-one shift per day basis:

“It?s only the’ second ‘month’ since we

bought the mill,” he says, adding he’s pleased” "

with the work the company has done.so far. °
Before the mill was bought by the group ~

of local investors.no more than-five. people .

_ were employed. as around-the- clock watch- -

men. And though the mill is not’ operating

yet, it already employs 17 employees includ-

- ing executives, administrative workers and
tradespeople, Takhar says.

The TFL1 sale gives Takhar hope that

at

- Chambers at 3215 Eby Street.
“ANNUAL REPORT INSPECTION:

City. council June 13; ‘they plan to complete
~ the sale soon and hope to start logging ac-.

CITY OF TERRACE

2005 ANNUAL REPORT

"TAKE NOTICE THAT, the City of Terrace will consider the 2005 Annual.
Report on Monday, July 11th, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council

more: fibre will be on the market i in the not-
- too- distant future.
Coast .Tsimshian officials told. Terrace

tivity sometime in the next three or four
months. ‘Ly

It § just one example of the: ‘growing im-
_ portance ‘of area First ‘Nations’ involvement:
_ inthe forestry industry. Takhar says the com-
pany is also exploring its options in terms
of getting a wood supply from the Kitselas

forest licences. Kalum Ventures, the forestry <

“company owned by the Kitsumkalum band,
‘was issued its first cutting permits earlier

this year and are actively logging. ©
“We're not looking-at one supplier, we’re

alittle bit from each.one,” Takhar said.
.And news that Sun Wave Forest Prod-

ucts, a subsidiary of .the Chinese govern-

ment’s “China Paper Group, has been given

_ the green‘light to purchase the pulp mill in.
- Prince Rupert, means the economic. future of
the region seems to be brightening.

Sun Wave and Coast Tsimshian officials
have developed:a “made-in-the-northwest”
business model reflecting the importance
‘of woodland operations, saw mills and-pulp —
mills working together to get the industry
here back on its feet and succeed into the -
future. °

“It’s not a competitive model it’s a co-
operative one,” says Coast Tsimshian CEO
Wayne Drury, ,

~The 2005 Annual Report may be. inspected at the City of Terrace main
office at 3215 Eby Street between 8:30 a.m. and 4: 30 'P. m. or on the ~

* City Website at www.city. terrace, be.ca | . -

~ PUBLIC INPUT DETAILS: mo .

. Any’person. wishing to discuss the 2005 Annual Report may do so
by attending the Council meeting to. be. held in Council Chambers at .
v: 30 DP. m. on Monday, July: q 1th, 2005.. ; ,

» RON Y POOLE, Chief Administrative Office ; .

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