There’s been a lot of attention paid to Burns Lake since its mill burned down in January this year… I give full credit to Minister Pat Bell and MLA John Rustad for the immediacy of the government’s response
… Recent work by government and the major licensees suggests that under the current land-use plans we’ll run out of commercially viable timber in the central interior faster than we expected. Yet, after at least 10 years of knowing this day of reckoning was coming, we still don’t have a game plan for the mill closures that are now on the near horizon. By Bob Simpson MLA
Apr 12, 2012
Williams Lake Tribune
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