Domtar

LETTER – Who’s looking out for taxpayers when Domtar taxes are cut?

January 29, 2020 // 3 Comments

On Jan. 14 Kamloops City council approved a reduction to the heavy industry tax rate. The main beneficiary of this tax reduction will be Domtar, who have been doggedly [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: City council needs wisdom of Solomon on tax ratios

May 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE ANNUAL DANCE between Domtar and the City is underway. For the past eight or nine years, the pulp mill has been demanding a better deal [Continue]

GINTA – There should be no compromise on keeping waters clean

February 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

FEW THINGS are more unsettling than the words ‘coloured discharge’ or ‘sludgy brown cloud’ when attached to the state of a natural body of water, such as a river or a [Continue]

HARRISON – Myopic council doesn’t think Kamloops needs heavy industry

October 26, 2016 // 1 Comment

THOSE ON Kamloops Council who think the city can do without heavy industry can put another notch in their belt. It’s unlikely the high municipal tax regime for heavy [Continue]

Dear Answer Man: What are all those big pipes on road from Domtar to the landfill?

May 31, 2014 // 2 Comments

Dear Answer Man, What is the purpose of the large pipeline that Domtar is building along the road to the landfill? We drove to the landfill last weekend and found the road [Continue]

‘Disgusting’ stink wafting over city coming from lagoons, not from pulp mill, says Domtar

May 17, 2014 // 5 Comments

UPDATE: City transferring sewage from old lagoon system to new treatment system; investigating complaints from residents of smell Utilities Services Manager Michael Firlotte [Continue]