The three-week shut down Brink Forest Products Prince George, Vanderhoof and Houston sawmills begins Thursday. CEO John Brink said there are a trio of reasons for the temporary shut down. …“The reasons are in public forest policies in BC, a lack of access to fibre and then on top of all of that duties through the US.” …“We will go down temporarily starting on December the 11th until the 6th of January where we will re-evaluate.” Brink noted this is just the second time in the company’s history, a tough decision like this had to be made. “We only slowed down once and that is when the river flooded back in 2008 for about three months. Gradually in the last six months, we have reduced our operations to about 25% of the volume.” The temporary closure impacts between 75 and 80 workers.