Copy of March 28th 1983 Press Release, which talked about Domtar Inc selling of their Blubber Bay Limestone quarry and other Texada Island holdings to Oregon Portalnd Cement Ltd. (Ash Grove). Quoting this article "if a new plant is built on Texada, it could create up to 200 jobs following completion and hundreds ore during the construction phase." But instead of this proposed plant being opened on Texada Island, which would have increased the tax base of the Powell River area. This plant in question was not open and a further expansion of a Seattle based cement plant was put in place.
