The City of Campbell River will be releasing a document soon that will assist individuals that have been impacted by the Myra Falls closure.
That was announced at the Thursday, Jan. 11 regular council meeting after the mayor presented a verbal report on the first meeting of the Myra Falls Community Transition Team.
“It was really good to get together with a group of people that were all fairly positive thinkers,” Mayor Kermit Dahl told the council meeting. “So, hopefully, we can see some good results from that group.”
City Manager Elle Brovold added to the mayor’s report with the note about the impending document about assistance for employees and businesses affected by the mine’s indefinite closure.
On Dec. 18, Myra Falls Mine Ltd. filed for protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and suspended active mining and milling operations at the Myra Falls mine. The Myra Falls mine and milling operation has been placed on indefinite care and maintenance.
The City of Campbell River has partnered with Community Transition Services, led by the Ministry of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation, to work collaboratively with First Nations, the employer, the union and community partners to support impacted workers and their families and attempt to ease negative effects for the community. These services will focus on worker transition services, to address the needs of the impacted workers and contractors; economic development, to connect communities and their residents with available resources to help manage the stress and uncertainty associated with economic disruption; and community and local government services, to assist the community in implementing economic development and diversification plans, building on existing work, assets, and partnerships.
“So, hopefully, this will be a good group to begin to work together to mobilize and address some of the challenges that the community will face from the Myra Falls Mine announcement,” Brovold said. “And we look forward to continuing that work, and releasing that transition document that will, hopefully, provide the links to some resources and support for both the workers that have been impacted, but also some of the businesses and other members of the community as well.”
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