Independent MLA Bob Simpson says he has no idea what caused the explosion and fire at the Lakeland mills operation in Prince George, but there are similarities with a similar blast that levelled the Babine forest products mill in Burns Lake last winter. Simpson says one common factor might be sawdust from timber killed by the mountain … [Read more...]
Independent MLA Bob Simpson points out similarities between the mill explosions in Burns Lake and Prince George
April 24, 2012 by
Cariboo North Independant MLA Bob Simpson says there is big trouble ahead for Forestry.
April 17, 2012 by
A government report obtained by independent MLA Bob Simpson is warning of up to 12,000 lost jobs in the interior forest industry over the next five years as timber killed by the mountain pine beetle is exhausted. And Simpson says this should come as no surprise to the BC Liberals. Simpson said "everybody's known that, for ten years, … [Read more...]
