A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 17, 1999

Skeena Cellulose cuts
back on its logging

LOGGING may already be
over for the year for cun-
tractors working for Skee-
na Cellulose.

Company officials last
week announced all: log-
ging operations are ‘already
going down-and that saw-
mill aperations at Carnaby
and ‘Smithers will take
downtime starting Nov. 22.

The Terrace sawmill is
on a temporary shutdown
that started : Monday : be-
cause of the part strike,

If that’s resolved quick-
ly the Terrace sawmill
should continue. normal
operations and will take its
usual shutdown: between
Christmas. and’. New
Years's, said SCI spokes-
man Don McDonald.

Carnaby. will © restart
Dec. 13; while Smithers
will restart Jan.10.

There’s rio firm date for
the restart of logging
operations, he added.

McDonald said SCI is
Shutting dawn the upriver
sawmills because of limi-
tations on lumber exports
to the U.S. market under
the Softwood Lumber
Agreement,

SCI and many other
producers get a certain
quota they’re allowed to
ship to the U.S. Once the
quota is exceeded, further
shipments are charged stiff
penalties — resulling in
many mills taking down-
time when the year’s quota
runs out,

McDonald indicated
SCI is opposing a renewal
of the current agreement,
which is set to expire next
year.

“Managed trade isn’t
working for us — free trade
is the better way to go,”
McDonald said,

“I think the Softwood
Lumber Agreement works
for some companies in the
industry but generally
speaking it doesn’t work.”

McDonald said SCI is
ordinarily more oriented to
Asian ‘markets, but added
those are still recovering
from their downturn in re-
cent years.

“We still have a weak
Japanese market,” he said.
“If those markets were
booming there might be
more opportunity for profit-
ability to ship to those

Flights
cut back

THE TWO airlines serving
Terrace have cancelled
(heir New Year’s Eve
evening flights, citing lack
of demand and perhaps
some nervousness among
passengers about Y2K.

The canceliations by
Canadian Regional and
Air B.C. are in line with
what their parent airline
companies are doing
across the country,

“There's a drop in busi-
ness traffic anyway over
Christmas and New Year’s
and by New Year’s Eve,
most people are at their
destinations,” said Cana-
dian Regional official
Dennis Erickson last week.

“Demand just isn’t as
great this year,” said An-
gela Mah from Air B.C. in
adding there was little rea-
son for it to schedule
flights to cannect to ones
thal parent Air Canada had
cancelled,

Both regional airlines
will resume regular service
New Year's Day. -

Mah and Erickson said
that while their airlines are
ready for ¥Y2K, there may
be some residual nervous-
ness from passengers about
how computer systems will
react when midnight Dec.
31 dawns.

As weil, the millennial
nature of this New Year's
has resulted in people
making special plans, sai
Erickson.

“Who really wants’ lo

celebrate at 30,000 fect?”

he continued.

Mah and Erickson noted
that air travel as a rule
falls off over the holidays

after a pre-Christmas rush.
for people to reach home.

or vacation destinations,

. Don McDoriald

“We could sell every- new deal will be reached,
thing we could ship, bul, . but ‘noted SCI has a lot of
we. can’t with these artifi- chips on hand right now.
cial barriers.” —

Loggers for West Fraser
so far are continuing to makes sense from every-

“We're still running, al- said.

though we might get shut
down for weather,” West
Fraser general manager
Lou Poulin said lasi week,
' He- said.) West Fraser
has no plans to shut its
Terrace sawmili for longer
than the usual’ two-week
Christmas closure. ©: :
' But he said other West

to the lack of quota ~ are -
adopting the two-week ha--
‘liday shutdown that in the”
past had been done only -.
here, :
Poulin added there has

ALL RESIDENTS
“| think they’re trying to

body’s point of view,” he

DARRELL NORTON
Fraser mills — in’ response FOR

TERRACE CITY COUNCIL
DEDICATED TO:

» SMALLER GOVERNMENT AND LOWER TAXES BY
IMPLEMENTING NEW MUNICIPAL ACT

+ EXPANDING OUR HIKING, BIKING AND WALKING
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duce inventory, which + ESTABLISHING A DIALOGUE ON ALONG RANGE
a y COMMUNITY VISION AND ON THE WAYS AND
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: : oe F PROVISIONS .
Right now, however, been no progress.in. talks
the. U.S. economy and = with SCI 10 renew a chip- _* FINDING LESS EXPENSIVE WAYS TO DELIVER
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