Port Alberni paper mill remains operational

Chris Stoicheff – Senior Director of Public Affairs at Domtar – says the company and entire industry needs provincial forestry rules to change to ensure fibre supply to BC mills.

“We’re going to continue to operate that mill for the foreseeable future, but I think we’re also quite direct about the challenges that the industry is facing in BC and what we’ve been quite clear that those are policy driven constraints.” he said.

Stoicheff says while most of Port Alberni’s pulp came from Crofton, that supply will now come from their Howe Sound mill.

He said local MP Gord Johns work to secure a biomass tax credit is an example of the government support the forest industry needs.