Recent History – 2004-2006 DAWSON CREEK – A deal to transform the Louisiana Pacific plant in the east end of the city into a modular home manufacturing plant is expected to be announced in the coming weeks. Greg Hammond, a partner in the Calgary-based Greensmart modular home company, said he hoped to have the official… Read More

Recent History – 2004-2006 By Brad Lyon, 6 July 2005 Several years of negotiations finally came to fruition on Tuesday, as Greensmart Manufacturing and Greensmart Homes purchased the never-used Louisiana-Pacific veneer plant. Representatives of Greensmart, LP, the province of British Columbia and the City of Dawson Creek signed off on the deal in a ceremony… Read More

Recent History – 2004-2006 By Brad Lyon, 8 July 2005 The Minister of State for Mining in B.C. believes that Pine Valley Mining has every opportunity to become as successful as the coal operations in the East Kootenays. Bill Bennett was on hand on Thursday afternoon for the official opening of Pine Valley’s Willow Creek… Read More

Recent History – 2004-2006 By Gary Rusak — September 2, 2005 Greensmart Homes will utilize the newly re-opened Dawson Creek-Hythe rail line when its local operations begin next year, a company official said this week. “That is going to happen,” said Alex Wik, executive vice president of the Calgary-based modular home manufacturer. “We are talking… Read More

Recent History – 2004-2006 By Gary Rusak — October 24, 2005 Black gold was on everyone’s mind at the Northeast British Columbia Community Coal Forum held in Tumbler Ridge last week. Charles Pritchard, of Belcourt-Saxon, took the opportunity to announce to the conference that two sites approximately 70 kilometres south of Tumbler Ridge were closer… Read More

Recent History – 2004-2006 By Brad Lyon — November 02, 2005 EnCana Corporation is seeking approval from the British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission to construct a value-add natural gas processing plant in the south Peace region, approximately 50 kilometres south of Dawson Creek and four kilometres north of Kelly Lake. The proposed plant is… Read More

Recent History – 2004-2006 January 18, 2006 CALGARY – The British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission has formally granted written approval for EnCana Corporation to proceed with construction of the Steeprock natural gas processing plant. The plant is being built to process natural gas produced by EnCana’s wells in the Bissette, Cutbank Ridge and Kelly… Read More

Recent History – 2004-2006 By Lee Kaiser, January 31, 2006 And then there were three. Peace Energy Co-operative and Aeolis Wind Power have joined with a Calgary-based oil and gas utility, AltaGas, in their bid to build a wind park on Bear Mountain. “We’ve come together with a larger partner out of Calgary which is… Read More

Recent History – 2004-2006 By Lee Kaiser, March 21, 2006 Greensmart Homes unveiled their first well-site trailer prototype Thursday as part of an open house at the new factory in the former Louisiana Pacific building east of Dawson Creek. The trailer is for use at remote oil and gas sites. But the 14-foot by 60-foot… Read More

Recent History – 1998 By Alethea Wiesner,Daily News Staff,Nov. 9, 1998 A temporary production shortfall at the Quintette coal mine is good news for 31 workers who have been recalled to work. The good news will be short-lived, however. Although the workers have been permanently recalled as according to the terms of the union contract,… Read More