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Teck shuttering Coal Mountain
Bring On Bach
Mining company cutting 1,000 jobs around the world in cost-cutting plan C ANADIAN PRESS
Mining company Teck Resources Ltd. is cutting 1,000 jobs around the world through a combination of layoffs and attrition as part of a plan to reduce spending next year by $650 million. The Vancouver-based company said the layoffs will include senior management and brings its total job cuts over the past 18 months to roughly 2,000 positions. The reduction in spending will include $350 million of capital spending cuts and deferrals and $300 million of operating cost savings.
Teck also said it will withdraw its Coal Mountain Phase 2 project near Fernie from the environmental assessment process and suspend further work on the project in bid to save cash. The suspension of the project means that mining will end at the existing Coal Mountain operations in the fourth quarter of 2017. The company says it will look for options between now and the end of 2017 to potentially replace the 2.25 million tonnes of annual coal production that were planned from the expansion project.
See TECK, Page 5
Industrial flat falls flat
Cranbrook Council defeats motion to allow apartment in industrial building ARNE PETRYSHEN
BARRY COULTER PHOTO
Four local students will be taking the stage with the Symphony of the Kootenays at the Symphony’s next concert, Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Key City Theatre. And Johann Sebastian Bach is on the menu. Clockwise from foreground: Katie Feng, Karen Feng, Emily Daly and David Robertson will perform Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze,” and Concerto in D Minor. See more, Page 2.
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Flexbrew Hot Beverage Dispenser Reg 129.99
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An apartment built against city bylaws in the industrial part of town will be no more. On Monday, Cranbrook city council voted against amending the zoning bylaw to allow for the two bedroom apartment that had been built in a building at 800 Industrial Road. The apartment in question is 93 square meter dwelling unit built inside a
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1,210 square meter industrial building. The zoning amendment bylaw was at its third reading and no one had spoken for or against it during the public hearing at the beginning of the meeting. Mayor Lee Pratt did note there were two letters received prior to the meeting and both were opposed to the amendment.
See COUNCIL, Page 3
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