TERRACE STANDARD

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - AY

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About

‘Kemess
road pushed

THE NEW provincial gov-
ernment is seriously inter-
ested in pushing ahead
wit the proposed Stewart-
Omineca resource road,
says mayor Jack Talstra.
The road providing
shorter access to the Kem-
ess gold mine is touted as
opening up the Sustut and
Omineca region to. mineral
exploration and logging.
Talstra raised the issue
with enterprise minister
Rick Thorpe last month.
“They have an interest
in working at it quite ser-
iously,” Talstra said.
“We're looking at var-
ious financing options. In a
month or two or three that
will become clearer.”

Yachis the

new market

MORE large yachts are
sailing into Prince Rupert
and depositing money in
the coast city.

The number of mega-
yachts of 100-plus feet in
length pulling into port has
tripled in the last few

LUMBER continues to be shipped from West Fraser's Skeena Sawmills opera-
tion here despite U.S. tariffs forcing many other coastal sawmills to close.

West Fraser still running
mill here in face of tariffs

SKEENA SAWMILLS is
so far continuing to run
and export lumber to
the U.S. despite the im-
position of a 19.3 per
cent tariff.

The West Fraser-owned
mill is running one shift of
its sawmill and one shift
on its planer, although it
has ceased whole-log
chipping on contract for
Skeena Cellulose.

Northwest regional

manager Lou Poulin is
cautiously optimistic an
uptick in lumber prices
will allow continued ex-
ports to the U.S. despite
the new duty on Canadian
softwood Jumber.

“We're shipping,” he
said. “We're still man-
aging to move our product.
As long as the Americans
want to pay the 20 per
cent higher price, we’ll
keep shipping.”

Chipping has stopped

because SCI’s pulp miil
isn’t running and needs no
chips.

The outlook isn’t as
good for West Fraser’s
custom-cut sawmill in
Prince Rupert.

The North Coast Timber
mill went down
“indefinitely” on Friday,
Poulin said.

“That’s hecause of the
Japanese economy,” he
said. “There’s just no mar-
ket for the umber we cut.”

years, say port officials.
Their appetite for
everything from food and
fresh flowers to light bulbs
and marine equipment has
turned servicing the yachts
into a million-dollar
growth business for Rupert.
At ieast 50 of the mega-
yachts. have docked there ~
so far this year, reports the
Prince Rupert Daily News. .

5 sang? x aw

pai

persist here
A GLOOMY report on the
‘ northwest economy pro-
. jects some easing of un-
employment.
- B.C. Credit Union Cen-
.-tral suggests the jobless
: Tate -may decline from near
+210 per cent to as low as
»-9.0 per cent by next year.
2. 2 "The region continues
: — te face. economic chal-
‘lenges with little hope for
“a marked change in the
Near term,” it says.
Poor pulp prices and Ja-
* pariese markets are among
“=the faetors hammering the
coastal: forest: industry, in-
cluding Skeena Cellulose,
it said.
A steel mill is probably
'. the most significant hope
for new jobs in. Prince Ru-
pert, the report suggested.
The Pacific Iron and
Steel Products Ltd. project
would create about 1,000
construction jabs and 350
permanent jobs. The plant,
if built, would produce 1.5
million tonnes of steel
slabs per year for shipment
to the U.S, and Asia.

Media exec

heads south

THE GENERAL manager
of the norlhwest’s largest
radio and television opera-
tion is resigning.
Stefanie Weber — of
Telemedia Radio West is
off to Port Alberni where —
; she and partner Tim Mac-
4 Lean have bought a Tim
; " Horton’s franchise.
Weber. is the last to go
of a management group
‘with ties dating back to
’ Telemedia’s - predecessor
company,. Skeena Broad-
casters “which became
Okanagan Skeena Group.
Weber: worked for Tele-
media’ and its predecessors
since 1984, MacLean was
a key executive until ter-
minated when Telemedia
took over in 2000 after 25
-years" with the company.
Telemedia : itself has
now been bought, pending
regulatory approval, by
Standard Broadcasting. =~

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feporters ;

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“st night to-try to resolve the he"
our disputes.
tear ERT fee

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-.orters without answering
ow the. bill might be enforced,
“intains no penalty provisions.
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