The Impendent MLA for Caribou-North says there will be consequences along the Highway 16 corridor after the Province forged ahead with re-building the Burns Lake sawmill.
Bob Simpson says in the next three to five years there will be shift reductions and constrained wood supply in the area, “By getting Burns Lake rebuilt, they are just going to cause that pain to be shifted to other communities. The Government is actually picking Burns Lake as a winner over Fraser Lake, or over Houston, or over Vanderhoof. The timber supply just doesn’t exist to sustain all of those mills.”
Simpson says a positive bump in the U-S housing market has, so far, allowed mills to bring in wood from elsewhere. He says the Province is undermining the investment climate in BC in order to play politics with the Burns Lake mill.
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