Super-mills in BC have led to huge numbers of trees cut to be shipped as raw logs, and with closures like the one in Houston, BC, workers and communities are feeling the pain too.
Read more in resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt's latest piece: https://www.policynote.ca/super-sized-mills/
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When the world’s biggest sawmill opened its doors, then-premier Gordon Campbell enthused that it could shoot out enough lumber to build all of British Columbia’s new annual housing stock, which was then averaging 26,000 units per year. After the ribbon was cut and the first logs passed through it
Jobs in BC’s forestry industry continue to disappear, the latest being 300 high-paying jobs at a pulp mill in Prince George. Relentless logging of the province’s forests are to blame, and while successive provincial governments have talked about solutions, actions from them have been few.
Ben Parfitt’s latest explains: https://www.policynote.ca/running-on-empty/
Closure of Prince George pulp mill all about running out of forest The pending closure of a pulp mill in Prince George and the loss of 300 high-paying jobs in the community is just the beginning of what promises to be a new and painful chapter in the province’s beleaguered forest industry, which
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