Don’t forget about making it explosion proof!

Good news for Mackenzie :)

Will supervisors still get there 10% bonuses in March. That adds up at 8-10 thousand dollars for each.??? I guess have to wait and see.

Good new for Mackenzie. Glad to see it happen.

Good news for Mackenzie

The bonus was just to entice people to go there. They will pay well in the beginning just to get you there then your work load will double and you are stuck.

its only good for the share holders not the community of Mackenzie all this means is LESS JOBS more production and more money for JIMMY PATERSON.Hopefully our mayor will stop giving JIMMY any more tax brakes so our community can start moving forward

Yup ,nothing positive about a $40,000,000.00 investment in our region. Nobody stands to gain except Canfor. They are probably going to except the millwrights , electricians,steel workers, truck drivers, suppliers, and everyone else to volunteer their there time.

They are getting the skilled workers from Alberta!

There may be less jobs eventually but that is still better than zero jobs which would happen when the mill cannot compete and be forced to shut down.

NoWay “They are getting the skilled workers from Alberta”
Are you joking? Do you even live on this on this planet? Why would a skilled worker that can make twice as much money in Alberta move to Mackenzie? I think you are confused because we are loosing all of our skilled workers to Alberta!

My Gawd! How can the oil patch compete with Mackenzie now???

Much needed. The Mackenzie saw mill has big potential with a great fiber supply. The mill is run down bad so any money put into it is a good thing.

Oh I don’t know Superdave. I’d gladly return to Mackenzie for work if they’d hire me. Housing is so cheap there you can actually afford the mortgage payments. Sure I can make a lot more money in Alberta but with basic houses costing north of 300 grand in ‘most’ oilpatch communities you need the extra income just to afford one.

I can say that Mackenzie certianly isn’t for everyone…but to some…its pure paradise.

There goes another pile of jobs!

Slumlordcom, if you are going to run someone down, at least get their name right. Its Jimmy Pattison, not Patterson. And obviously you don’t like investors, but take a sec to think where many resource towns in BC would be without those with money willing to risk it in the hopes of making more. Pattison is responsible for employing thousands in BC (including some friends of mine).

He is also responsible for putting many out of work! By the way is Takama up and running yet?

slumlordcom and boomer, I can’t begin to comment on how stupid your posts are.

This project means plenty of short term work for construction, at least for Canfor Sawmills’ favourite contractor, but the contractor does employ a lot of people, and buy a lot of products locally, plus there is always lots of spin off, in labour and materials sourcing, that will benefit the people of the central Interior.
This is a good news story, a corporation making a committment to remain in production.
metalman.

But apparently those same contractors are rebuilding Babine. I wonder if they will be able to find any skilled workers as they can’t be two places at once.

Dow7000 . I was being sarcastic in response to Slumlordcom.

Slumlordcom makes the very correct observation that when the project is finished there will be fewer ‘jobs’, not more.

Not just amongst all those who will no longer be needed once the construction phase is complete, but also those then displaced by new technology on the mill floor.

Surely it should be obvious to anyone that every increase in productivity means more product output for less labour input. It’s too bad we can’t see this as being something desirable, which it is ~ there is nothing to be said for doing some repetitive process solely by hand, when the same thing can be done better and faster by a machine.

But the fact that the unemployment this creates is still accompanied by long-term unemPAYment clouds that picture. The loss of the ‘job’ outright; reduction in the time it takes to do it; or the sharing of jobs for a shorter workday for all, if there’s a desire to have everyone who wants a job to have one, are all still detrimental from the loss of income that currently attaches to each.

Yet it’s still almost solely from those incomes remaining that the output of the machine must be purchased, and the costs of its installation and operation recovered. If they can be recovered. And while no one can deny that the processes of modern mass-production have greatly lowered the costs of all products so produced, there is also no denying that it is still the TOTAL costs, of ALL this additional productivity that must always be fully liquidated. How much of ALL this ADDITIONAL production can be utilised by those who still have an income? Far, far from ALL of it, that’s for sure.

This does not change even if the people displaced from their jobs on the floor of the mill find alternate work elsewhere. For the costs of the machine that replaced them, even if lower, must still all be ALLOCATED into the prices of the products it produces for THEM to buy. Only now there have been no incomes distributed for what the machine does, for we don’t pay a wage to a machine. Just as the wages those displaced make in their new job will be part of the prices of THOSE OTHER products made in that new job. Now we have a little problem. TWO sets of costs, and only ONE set of incomes. And no matter how you want to look at it, ONE can never FULLY liquidate the costs of TWO. And if we resort, as we do, to incurring ‘debt’ to do that?

Well, then, taken in its TOTALITY how can that debt ever be fully repaid? Only at the expense of an ever larger one. Until it gets too large, and even a government that never has to repay its portion of it, can’t tax enough things to even pay the interest on it.

Socredible. So what is the solution to this dilemma? Modernization has been going on long before Jimmy Pattison was born and the invention of the steam engine. Maybe the coffee shop experts that hang out at Timmies have some solutions.