Ward Stamer

As BC’s forestry industry licks its wounds following a series of recent mill closures, BC’s forest critic says truck loggers are hurting, too. Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Ward Stamer attended the TLA’s convention last month, and came away with a dire picture of how these BC workers are feeling in terms of their job security. …Stamer lamented the closing of the Atli Chip mill near Port McNeill, announced last month. He said the closure was unexpected, but not altogether unsurprising given the domino effect set in motion by a previous Crofton pulp mill closure on Vancouver Island. He said “we never heard a peep” about the Atli Chip mill closure in the week before it happened, “but that’s what happens when you get something like a pulp mill that goes down, it can drag anywhere between four to six solid mills with it.”