B.C.’s sole aluminum smelter, located in the northwestern town of Kitimat, has landed square in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war, leaving its owner scrambling to adjust.

Find her on Bluesky @amandafollett.bsky.social. The northern community of Kitimat was founded on aluminum. Today, its smelter, the only major smelter outside Quebec in Canada, employs more than ...

The economics of electricity made Kitimat a good place to build an aluminum smelter, and U.S. tariffs might not do much to sway that equation.

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The two B.C. regions that include resource-reliant communities like Smithers, Vanderhoof and Terrace stand to lose the most from tariffs, according to new research from the Institute for Research on ...

Starting this week, all unwrought aluminum produced at the BC Works smelter in Kitimat and exported to the U.S.—which is to say 80 per cent—will face tariffs of between 25 per cent and 50 per ...

Starting this week, all unwrought aluminum produced at the BC Works smelter in Kitimat and exported to the U.S.—which is to say 80 per cent—will face tariffs of between 25 per cent and 50 per cent. It ...