Thunder Bay's Chronicle Journal is reporting today that the Terrace Bay Pulp mill may be lacking its most skilled workers if/when it reopens.

Don McArthur, co-ordinator of Terrace Bay's job action centre, said some of the mill's skilled workers have left the area for employment elsewhere. Some of the power engineers are now working in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

Because the job action centre didn't get up and running until Oct. 19 – seven months after the mill shut down – it‘s been more difficult to get a handle on how many laid-off TBP workers remain in the Thunder Bay district, McArthur said.

McArthur would like to have a training centre in the community so that anyone interested in taking a steam-operator course could do so without relocating. Often these courses take four to five months to complete.

If you are one of the employees from Terrace Bay Pulp who has found work elsewhere, are you planning to return to Terrace Bay if the mill is able to reopen?