Intercon Pulp

By Cheryl Jahn

Mayors talking mills

Mayor for new working group

Jul 10, 2019 | 4:18 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – The Intercon pulp mill is set to start one month of curtailments on Friday, while Northwood will do the same in mid-August.

Those curtailments are the result of, amongst other things, curtailments in those sawmills that provide chips to the pulp mills. All of the curtailments around the region prompted the Mayor of Prince George to invite Mayors and Regional District Directors from those communities within the North Central Local Government Association to a meeting with the Council of Forest Industries, government and industry.

“Because it has such a drastic impact on the entire region. Really, 100 Mile House to Haida Gwaii, north to the border, it was really important for me to bring these folks together so we could sit together in a room and have a conversation about where we’re going,” he explains.

He says while Prince George’s economy has diversified in recent years, the same may not be said of some small, mor forestry-dependent communities. As, as goes the regions, so goes Prince George.

“We depend on the regional economy to help our economy. How do we do the re-training? How do we do a better job of diversification within these smaller communities?

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From that meeting, a smaller working group will be formed with an eye to being at the table.

“We want to be there and have those meetings. We don’t want to hear about things that are coming down the road at the Eleventh Hour.”