Cheryl Jahn

Economic impact report on forestry grim By Cheryl Jahn CKPG News Prince George April 8, 2026 Category: Business & Politics PRINCE GEORGE – “Every day I get a phone call from an employer, and the first thing that comes to my mind is, ‘Oh, we’re going to lose another operation.’ And right now we’re probably down to about half the membership we were, a number of years ago.” That’s the sentiment of the president of the United Steelworkers – the union representing forestry workers in northern and...

PRINCE GEORGE – It was 2021 when Canfor announced a final investment decision on a project to produce biofuel. The plant will use hydrothermal liquefaction technology to convert forestry residues and wastes into high value into renewable biocrude, which can be further refined to produce low-carbon transportation fuels. “What we do is essentially, what nature does over millions of years we do in 25 to 30 minutes,” explains Rune Gjessing, CEO of Arbios Biotech.

New Forests Minister “gets to work” By Cheryl Jahn CKPG Today November 28, 2024 Category: Business & Politics Region: Canada, Canada West PRINCE GEORGE – Ravi Parmar is the new Minister of Forests. “As a new Minister Of Forests, you do not have a guy who wants to spend the next six months developing the next flashy vision roadmap framework, you name it.