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Wednesday

January 22, 1992

With hot coffee and a fire in a drum to keep them warm, Emcon employees (from left) Walter Miller, Fred Planidin and Harry
Vanjoff were on duty at the picket line Monday in front of the company’s office in Castlegar. See story, page 4.

News photo by Ed Mills

Hi Pope and Talbot purchase
puts some 93 jobs on the line at
Castlegar sawmill

Scott David Harrison
EDITOR

After months of negotiations,
Westar Group Ltd. has finally sold its
Castlegar mill.

Westar struck a $22 million deal
with Pope and Talbot Inc. Friday to
take over operations of the local mill
and some 70 per cent of Tree Farm
Licence No. 23.

However, the sale doesn’t come
without some bad news for the mill’s
280 workers currently laid off.

In an interview with The News,
Pope and Talbot president Abe

Friesen confirmed that the Midway- .

based company plans to reduce the
Castlegar operation to match its TFL
share. The end result means some 93

workers will be permanently laid off
when the mill gets back into full
swing. 5
“Our intention is to start up with
the people that were there and then
scale back,” Friesen said. “We will be
scaling back because we don’t have as
much timber as there was before.”

Under the agreement, Pope and
Talbot purchases timber rights
stretching from south of the Trans-
Canada Highway to. Castlegar.

The remaining portion — north of
the Trans-Canada through
Revelstoke — remains unsold and in
the hands of financially-troubled
Westar.

The sale must receive approval °
from the Ministry of Forests
following a series of public hearings,
which have yet to be set.

“I think (Forest Minister Dan
Miller) is going to be pushed by
people in Castlegar and Nakusp to

WESTAR FINALLY SOLD

get those public hearings completed,
but I couldn’t say the same about.
Revelstoke,” Friesen said.

The sale of the-:southern portion of
TFL.-No. 23 may be good for
Castlegar, but it leaves Revelstoke
mills in the dark.

Westar has operations in the

_Revelstoke and Malakwa areas which
‘rely on timber from TFL No. 23.

The proposed split leaves those
operations with substantially less
timber to pick from.

“I don’t see any problems with the
split,” Friesen said, acknowledging
that the opposite could be said when
public hearings reach Revelstoke.

Revelstoke Mayor Dr. Geoff
Battersby has expressed some
concern to Castlegar Mayor Audrey
Moore of what the sale will do to his
area. Battersby could not be réached
for comment.

please see WESTAR page 2

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