Recent History – 1999 Nov. 23, 1999 VICTORIA – The November sale of oil and gas rights brought in $9.1 million in revenue to the province, Premier and Energy and Mines minister Dan Miller announced Monday. Revenues from oil and gas rights sales now stand at $152 million for the first 11 months of the… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Dec. 3, 1999, By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Gus McLeod will serve a second term as president of the Dawson Creek and District Chamber of Commerce. McLeod, who owns the local KFC restaurant, won the post by acclamation Thursday, when the Chamber held their annual board of director elections. Traditionally, the… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Dec. 7, 1999, By Mark Nielsen. Daily News Staff Residents in the Blockline Road area are at odds with Louisiana-Pacific over the forest company’s intention to log a section of land they say should remain untouched. “We just feel like some pieces of native boreal forest need to be left alone so… Read More

Recent History – 1999 Dec. 22, 1999 The December sale of oil and gas rights brought in $24.4 million bringing the total sale revenues for 1999 to $176 million, Premier and energy and mines minister Dan Miller announced Monday. “Overall, the numbers for this year prove efforts to work with the oil and gas industry… Read More

Recent History – 200 Jan. 7, 2000, By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Lower emissions, improved production, and the start of a community advisory group were major topics when Louisiana-Pacific (L-P) oriented strand board plant manager Randy Johnston spoke Thursday to the Dawson Creek and District Chamber of Commerce. Not only will L-P’s new thermal fluid… Read More

Recent History – 2000 Jan. 14, 2000, By Christine Podmore, Daily News staff Northeast B.C.’s average unemployment rate for 1999 is 8.4 per cent, up from 3.7 per cent in 1998, but the monthly rate has been dropping steadily after reaching a high in July. Provincially the numbers are more encouraging. Mike Farnwortn, B.C. Employment and… Read More

Recent History – 2000 From Canadian Press in Peace River Block News, February 14, 2000 Almost two decades after it opened, British Columbia’s northeast coal project faces another year of lower export volumes at shrinking prices. An old-fashioned megaproject in trouble almost from the beginning, the project cost its original investors and taxpayers hundreds of… Read More

Recent History – 2000 Feb. 9, 2000, By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff The Dawson Co-op Home and Agro Centre will undergo a $1.5 million expansion to more than twice its current size, board chair Myrna Gardner announced Monday. Located at 10020 Parkhill Drive, the store’s current sales area is “seriously undersized and crowded” at 4,000… Read More

Recent History – 2000 March 2, 2000, By Mark Nielsen, Daily News Staff Blaming depressed coal prices and relatively high production costs, Teck Corporation announced Wednesday that the Quintette coal mine will be shut down 2 1/2 years earlier than scheduled. Nearly 600 employees will lose their jobs at the Tumbler Ridge mine when it shuts… Read More

Recent History – 2000 April 5, 2000 DAWSON CREEK — It’s been a banner winter in the oil patch. Rob McManus, commissioner of the Oil and Gas Commission (OGC), told council Monday that although the final figures are not in yet, it looks to have been the busiest drilling season on record. At one point,… Read More