Update: Single Traffic – Road Closure – KM 839 Alaska highway north of Liard Hotsprings.
UPDATE: Highway is open to single lane traffic. NORTHERN ROCKIES REGIONAL DISTRICT: The Alaska Highway is closed due to a spill involving a fuel truck between Liard Hot Springs and…
Dear British Columbians
“If you want to do something about our reliance on fossil fuels then address the demand for them not the transportation of them.” By Lori Ackerman, Mayor of the City…
Chief Harrison Dickie will make announcement in April on the sale of OSB plant
Rumours have been circulating for several weeks that the oriented strand board plant is being sold by Canfor. This week Fort Nelson First Nation confirmed in its newsletter that Chief…
Streeper responds positively to the mention of the Northern Rockies in Premier John Horgan’s Throne Speech; Donaldson receives thanks for efforts to unblock the log jam
A Letter frometter from Mayor Bill Streeper, to Honourable John Horgan, MLA Premier of British Columbia P.O. Box 9041 Re: Forest Industry Revitalization in the Northern Rockies Dear Premier Horgan,…
Northern Rockies Report Card on the shape of the community from census figures
The Northern Rockies Children and Families Action Committee filed a report on Fort Nelson’s State of the Community, a discussion on local social economic conditions and resources in 2017. The…
Shell forecasts LNG shortage, raising potential that $40-billion B.C. project will proceed
by Charlie Smith The Georgia Straight One of the world’s largest fossil-fuel companies sees potential for a global shortage of liquefied natural gas by the mid 2020s. And that that…
Progress gets out of Alberta to concentrate on North Montney
CALGARY. – Progress Energy Canada has sold its oil and natural gas assets in Alberta’s Deep Basin, that will allow the company to focus on its holdings in B.C. In…
Site C power purchase of interest to Yukon
The Yukon Development Corporation is looking into purchasing Site C hydroelectric power according to the Minister of Energy, Mines and Natural Resource Operations, Ranj Pillai. Speaking at the annual Association…
Lumber prices rocket as lumber in Fort Nelson forests remain locked up by Canfor
Vaughn Palmer reported on the Throne Speech last week, and in his article he discussed the standoff between the residents of the Northern Rockies and the international company Canfor that…
Help me understand why we are paying 25-per cent carbon tax
Letter to the Editor Can somebody explain to me why residents in British Columbia are paying a carbon tax of 25% (check your Fortis bill) on natural gas to heat…
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