Forestry crisis has B.C. town hanging by a thread | CBC News
“We’ve got the best employees in the world,” he says as he grabs a piece of scrap material off the production line.
The problem is he’s running out of raw material needed to keep the plant north of Prince George running.
“We
were running three shifts, then it got down to two shifts and now down
to one. We’re trying to keep our people employed,” he says.
His
mill is an example of just how interconnected the B.C. forestry sector
has become, and the crisis it’s facing as 25 mills have ceased operating
this year, leaving more than 6,000 people out of work.