Northwood is gearing up for a big shutdown... they take a lot of wood chips, probably as much as PG and Intercon combined... they could easily lock out some saw mills for the duration of the shutdown at the pulp mill. If there is a lockout, then I would bet that is when it happens.

On a side note, I'm not sure if anyone has noticed all the rats around Northwood lately... I've never seen rats in PG before until a few weeks ago, but they've taken over all around Northwood in a big way... probably coming in on the rail cars is my thinking.

Northwood????

"I'm not sure if anyone has noticed all the rats around Northwood lately"

-They force KFC to use real chicken now.

Now is the time for the corporations like Canfor, West Fraser and Interfor to push the unions to accept the same deal the union in Mackenzie accepted. The union in Mackenzie gave up a lot just to get back to work and you will see the Canfor Jimmies and West Fraser Hank gunning for the same deal for the rest of their operations. I wonder if the union has the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the kind of corporate terrorism that may be being eluded to above about Northwood gearing up for a big shut down and perhaps locking out some of the sawmills for the duration of the shut down at the pulp mill?
It is said that some of the Canfor, West Fraser and Interfor operations are not Conifer members and therefore whatever deal is ironed out by Conifer does not and will not affect these non Conifer member mills. Mark my words, the deal that is ironed out by Conifer "WILL" be adopted by all non Conifer member mills whether the unions want it or not.
I quote: "Representing more than 9 thousand forestry workers throughout B.C., the package being developed with Conifer is to be the pattern for other companies to follow" Uquote.
Conifer is the go between for the company in all company union relations, they were put in place to take the bullets for the companies and they are paid by the companies to do what the companies want done.
On a side note I heard an unconfirmed statement yesterday that eluded that we are now accepting lumber from the US that was produced from logs the US purchased from BC, Imagine that...with all the mills down in Canada right now because of the so called poor markets we may now be buying lumber produced from our logs that we sold to the US because we can not afford to mill them ourselves. If that is true this is the first time in Canadian history that I know of where this has happened and I believe it to be the beginning of the end if this is in fact happening. The general public and the work force need to decide if they wish to take action and take back the Industry, if nothing is done or said we all lose. A good beginning would be to stop all log exports and log sales out side of the provinces.