West Fraser is closing its Houston sawmill, affecting 225 employees and Canfor is shutting down its Quesnel sawmill, affecting 209 employees.
I believe the mill in Houston is one of that town’s 2 largest employers, that will certainly be devastating for them.
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Bad news…we knew it was coming,so why not take some of the logs from TFL#1 and truck them to Houston?They are leaving a lot of wood in the bush!
Was curious as to where the wood material for the Pinnacle wood pellet plant was coming from.
more saw mills shutting down?..ohh yeah?..surorised?
we used to have 4 between rupert and hazelton…now none in that distance!
but ship full of loggs depart our harbour on a weekly basis
cause wei ping will work for alot less than bob smoth will at a saw mill…
sad,
prob from dead pine beetle infested trees i would suspect
[quote=“mcsash”]more saw mills shutting down?..ohh yeah?..surorised?
we used to have 4 between rupert and hazelton…now none in that distance!
but ship full of loggs depart our harbour on a weekly basis
cause wei ping will work for alot less than bob smoth will at a saw mill…
sad,[/quote]
China only buys raw lumber because it provides employment for their 1.3 billion people, not because Bob Smoth is making $60,000 a year.
Don’t be surprised. Unless it’s a high ticketed commodity like a BMW or a Starbucks Coffee, China will only buy raw materials.
Technology is a wonderful, but it does have its drawbacks. Probably were dozens and dozens of mills there 50 years ago, but took hardly any lumber because they did everything by hand. Now 1 mill can produce 50 times what them dozens produces years ago. They built to much capacity and now they are hooped.
Alberta doing the same with oil, building up capacity like madmen, and one day soon their oil industry is going to die like Houston soon will, and the Houston mills has no issues with getting rid of their product like the oil industry has.
The sad part of this story is that thanks to the NDP,Mr Pedder was forest minister at the time, and would not allow trees to be cut in the park where the pine beetle started.Too sad!This would not have happened if Dan Miller had still been minister in charge.Just saying…