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Conifex sawmill workers in B.C. to take two breaks amid higher log costs, duties

Conifex sawmill workers in B.C. to take two breaks amid higher log costs, duties | iNFOnews.ca
Workers sort and move lumber at the Delta Cedar Sawmill in Delta, B.C., on Friday January 6, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

FORT ST. JAMES, B.C. – A leaner holiday season lies ahead for those who work at the Conifex Timber Inc. sawmill in Fort St. James.

The company has announced a two-week curtailment beginning Monday and continuing until November 26 at the mill about 160 kilometres northwest of Prince George.

A second two-week curtailment is also planned around the Christmas period.

Conifex says it requires a 15 per cent cut in lumber production for the quarter.

Chief executive officer Ken Shields says the curtailments are due to falling lumber prices, stiff export duties, increasing log costs and a drop in log quality as commercially viable mountain pine beetle timber runs out.

Shields says the actions are an attempt to mitigate the impacts on employees as much as possible for 2018 and into next year.

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Shelby Thevenot

Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.

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