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]

Venture Kamloops study points to ‘weakness’ of current city tax ratios, say major industries

April 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS — A recent economic impact study by Venture Kamloops strengthens the case for lowering major industries’ share of the tax burden, say industry representatives. [Continue]

Domtar reviewing bad-smell procedures

April 1, 2014 // 3 Comments

NEWS — Domtar is reviewing procedures in the wake of last week’s foul smell that spilled out of the mill and sailed east down the valley, resulting in dozens of calls [Continue]

Bad smell came from Domtar release of gas

March 27, 2014 // 1 Comment

NEWS — That smell you may have noticed Wednesday night was the Domtar pulp mill acting up. The mill released NCG — or non-condensable gas —around 9 p.m. and wind took [Continue]

Fewer complaints about smell, says Domtar

March 25, 2014 // 5 Comments

NEWS — Complaints about smell from the pulp mill were “notably fewer” than the previous two years, says an annual air report from Domtar. The report says the reduction [Continue]

If tax rates for industries lowered, some savings should go to cutting pollution

March 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

LETTER — Kamloops Moms For Clean Air very proudly submitted the following letter and supplementary visual attachments to City Council to be read today during the [Continue]