According to Port Alice Mayor Kevin Cameron in an interview with MyTriPortNow, all Neucel Specialty Cellulose employees working at the pulp mill received layoff notices Feb. 27.
Neucel Specialty Cellulose makes up 70 per cent of the community’s tax base and is owned by the Canadian arm of a Chinese company called Fulida. The mill still hasn’t paid its taxes, which were due back in July of 2018, totalling around a million dollars.
The mill’s property is the same as any other property when it comes to unpaid taxes.
If the taxes continue to go unpaid, then the current taxes become arrears the following year. If the arrears continue to go unpaid, then they become delinquent the next year. Properties with unpaid delinquent taxes are then sold at a tax sale on the last Monday of September.
The North Island Gazette will update this story once we have more information.
