Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
19Thanks GODDAMED LIBERALS!!!Totally destroying whole country
30- Ed_S
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
32Upper Fraser, Rustads, Clear Lake, Polar, Mackenzie, Isle Pierre, Plateau, Northwood ... Canfor has been a disaster for the area ..
2- TC99
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
24You can always gauge what southern B.C. thinks about P.G. by how the nightly Global BC newscast treats a significant story like this.There was no mention of it tonight on its newscast. How shameful.And yet when the Chilliwack Com-Tran plant, employing 45, announced its closure last week Global BC was all over it.It's time for Global BC to more accurately rebrand itself as Global SouthBC.Global BC does not represent all of B.C..
4- BGeez
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
26The pulpmill closing will hit the city tax base hard. City council stop the clock on a new arena downtown and a PAC. Taxes are high enough and the homeowners can not afford this continual 6 or 7% tax increase which will likely be substantially higher with the loss of a major industry.
- rod angove
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
21Further, as I explained two years ago, Canfor has been in the process in the last fifteen years of extricating its business out of B.C. slowly but surely.First were the sawmills, then P.G. Pulp, then Northwood ' B side ' and now Northwood ' A side '.Next to follow will be Intercon Pulp and P.G. Papermill by 2030.If Canfor had their way they would have preferred to close everything in one fell swoop but instead decided to do it piecemeal which, although very hard on those affected, is not as harsh as closing the entire business all at once.The effect on P.G. will be drastic.The City of P.G. will not exist on public sector jobs alone.
4- BGeez
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
18Don’t forget about the NDP.
6- Shark Tank
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
14They have to make money to stay running, thanks to those voters who voted for Carney and his liberals(please explain what has he done to turn the economy around since he made all those campaign promises ? Didn't he just pay for a bridge and give half the tolls to the US?) And now the provincial NDP, there is more than enough fiber in the forest but the NDP are slow moving and wont allow companies to access it. Just sit back and watch BC get worse, we havent hit rock bottom yet. To all those who voted this way and are feeling it , you aren't allowed to complain about how much everything costs. You made your bed, lay in it. Everyone warned what the NDP would do.
10- Alucard
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
21As I predicted in comment two years ago when Canfor closed its PG Pulpmill.Not a surprise.Intercon Pulp will close by 2030.RIP Northwood ( 1966 - 2026 ).
2- BGeez
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
17The closures have been happening under multiple governments, they are all at fault. This is the result of corporate monopolies that none of our political parties stand up to.
6- ReasonableHumanBeing
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
11Elbows up Canada??? Oh the prosperity of it all...
11- Princegeorgegirl
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
17Nothing to do with liberals...nice try. We all know what it's about and has been in the works for decades .
4- D122
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
16Liberals??? LOL!Jimmy Pattison is not a Liberal, and as a majority owner of Canfor he has run that company into the ground.When I worked at PG Pulp, Peter Bentley knew us all by name...Pattison is selling off the company and moving his business south...he does not care for PG. BC, or Canada!
5- Mike Maslen
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
20What a blow!
- Eyeinthesky44
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
18The writing has been on the wall for sometime. I work at the affected location and most have been waiting for that shoe to drop hoping it never would. Market conditions have been horrible and I fully expect to hear of more closures coming soon.It did not help that the NDP over the last 30 years has done nothing to help the forest industry. Yes they must take a huge share of the blame due to their policies of environment over jobs.A certain amount of the blame falls on Canfor itself for some very bad decisions made throughout the years both operationally and financially.End result is forestry went from a driving force to being a byline in the footnotes.
2- Dearth
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
9RIP Prince george. That place will be a ghost town in no time.
10- Jarid A
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
12Tell us you're Albertan without telling us you're Albertan...lol.
6- D122
Shoplifting crackdown sees 40 arrests in July
15While the police keep retailers safer with their " boost and bust " , the judicial system brings back the danger with their " catch and release ".Thank you Courts.
2- BGeez
Studio 2880 property up for sale
12I'm sure either of the two biggest landlords in town, Northern Health or BCHousing will snap it up and then convert it into another one of their social disasters. It's what they do and they do it well.
4- BGeez
Canfor closing Northwood Pulp Mill
8It’s all about profit
7- Jim John
Northwood Pulp Mill employees face uncertain future
13When the forest industry came out of the early 1980's recession it seemed like for a time things would boom again.Northwood doubled its mill in 1982 and the mills began to thrive again.Then in the late 1990's both Northwood and Canfor began to tighten their belts with each of their own cost reduction programs. Then Canfor bought Northwood in 1999 as Northwood's parent companies, Noranda and Mead Corp. divested their western forestry holdings.The writing was on the wall in 1999 that the times they were a changin'.And year by year, mill by mill, we are where we are today.It's sad to see a proud pioneer industry that built B.C. die by an NDP government run by urban elites who care nothing about the rural B.C. that built this once beautiful province.
2- BGeez
