Policy impacts played role in Canfor cuts in Northern B.C.
PRINCE GEORGE — 400. That’s the approximate number of how many jobs will be impacted by Canfor’s announcement that they would be indefinitely curtailing one production line at Northwood Pulp Mill as well as the permanent closure of the Polar Sawmill and the suspension of planned reinvestment in Houston, B.C.
The President & CEO of Canfor Pulp, Kevin Edgson, told us what led to the decision regarding the Northwood curtailment.