4 Terrave Review —— Wednesday, November 20, 1991

Rupert s

The economically troubled port
city of Prince Rupert may
regain a lost industry next spring
when the former Wedeene River
Timber sawmill is expected to
start operations again.

Wedeene went bankrupt last:
year, more than $20 million in:
debt. After flogging the oper-
ation for several months as a
going concern, the receiver
finally sold it with government
approval to the West Fraser
Timber-Eurocan pulp and paper
partnership that operates Skeena
Sawmills in Terrace and the
Eurocan pulp mill in Kitimat.

The Rupert mill holdings have
been renamed North Coast Tim-
ber and organized as a division
of Eurocan. Bruce MacNicol,
who is running the mill as man-
ager of northwest resources for
Eurocan, said last week final
modifications are being designed
for the mill. Although Wedeene
management claimed that the
mill’s inability to cut large-dia-
meter logs was one of the fac-
tors that contributed to its finan-
cial downfall, MacNicol said
Eurocan isn’t planning to refit
the mill for big logs.

‘When it starts again in May or

awmill schedul

June 1992, MacNicol said, the
mill will employ about the same
number of workers — 60 — and
produce the same amount of
lumber — 170,000 board feet

per shift — as it had before it

closed.

MacNicol said the Wedeene -

mill and licence will fit well into
West Fraser-Eurocan’s existing
operations. The company’s log-
ging on Tree Farm Licence 41 is
mainly active on the south half
of the licence. Trees can now be
cut and boomed on the Douglas

Channel and towed to Prince

Rupert for milling at the North
Coast mill rather than being
hauled out of the water at Kiti-
mat and trucked to Terrace. The

Terrace mill will be able to

handie larger logs off the
161,000 cubic metre coastal
forest licence that came with the
Wedeene purchase.

The company is still exercising
the right to export sawlogs, but
MacNicol said he expects that to
cease next year when the export
permit expires. For 1991 and
part of 1992, he said, they have
the right to export 20,000 cubic
metres off the licence area. "We
could reapply, but I think that’s
unlikely," he said.

Review commitiee
still.analyzing
Orenda project —

The Major Project Review
Process steering committee met
in Terrace on Oct. 30 and 31,
and again in Victoria on Nov. 6
and 7 to examine the Orenda
pulp and paper mill proposal. A
recommendation is still in the
remote future, says Major Pro-
ject Review Process co-chairman
David Parsons.

According to Parsons, there are
still a number of social, environ-
mental and technical concerns to
be addressed, and until every
item is covered to the satisfac-

tion of the committee the matter .

will remain under review.

Even when a recommendation
is made, however, it’s difficult
to say how an NDP cabinet will
react to a recommendation from
a process designed by the So-
creds. Terrace economic devel-
opment officer Peter Monteith
sits on the MPRC and says the
committee didn’t overlook the
fact that their Victoria meeting
took place on the same day as
the NDP cabinet was being
sworn in.

E | ecti Oo n — Continued from page 1

"I feel badly so few people chose to exercise their right to. vote.
It’s unfortunate, because it’s hard to know what that says. It could
mean people are satisfied with things the way they are, or it could
mean something else. We fought hard to get the right to vote, and
it’s unfortunate that so few used it," Christensen said yesterday.

He added that he is looking forward to working with the board
and thanked the people who voted for him. Christensen has been on

the board as a ministry appointee
previous elected term.

for the past year, and served one

In the same election Mary Spooner, also a ministry appointee for
the past year, was elected to represent the Hazeltons on the board.

Both seats carry a two-year term. The newly elected trustees will
be sworn into office at the monthly board meeting Dec. 10.

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