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Thick, black smoke from waterfront could be seen all over Port Alberni
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Thick, black smoke from waterfront could be seen all over Port Alberni
Thick, black smoke from waterfront could be seen all over Port Alberni
Service New Brunswick's recent decision to retract $3.5 million of a $3.7 million assessment increase it had given J.D. Irving Ltd.'s Saint John paper mill in 2021 for economic reasons is the third major valuation reduction the facility has gotten from the agency in the last decade.
Posted: Mar 13, 2021 9:00 AM PT | Last Updated: March 13 More than a third of the workers at the Catalyst Paper Mill in Powell River, B.C., are still out of a job. (Submitted by Eldon Haggarty) Hundreds of workers at the Catalyst Paper Mill in Powell River, B.C., who were laid off at the start of the pandemic will soon be back on the job. Paper Excellence, which owns the mill, announced this week that one of the facility's two machines will be coming back online as of April. But some say the news is bittersweet as only 200 of the more than 320 workers who lost their jobs will return.