This should be good for Fort St James and Mackenzie... I'm not sure Brink can handle any more than what they currently process. East Fraser (Mackenzie) and TlOh (Fort) both have the ability to ramp up production if they have the resources to work with.

One would hope the trim blocks as a viable split off product that produces real secondary jobs is not simply written off as an efficiency issue from the saw mills perspective and thus sent to the chipper, rather than adding value to the trees that are harvested.

What does Pat Bell have to say about that and will Canfor simply chip the blocks now, or will they be compelled to provide these resources at a cost competitive rate to the value added industry that could use the access to these resources?

why did canfor buy so many mills way back ?just curious

My guess alex1212?
To eliminate the competition by taking out as many mills as they can.
I wonder how that has worked for them?

Another example of the HST at work lowering costs and creating jobs.

alex1212..

They wanted the timber tenures for pulp. This is right around the same time the chip n saw mill headrig was introduced and small logs were now allowed to be harvested.(under 10" diameter)It was illegal to harvest les than 10" diameter logs.

The chip n saw and small diameter class harvesting were introduced for the growing pulp industry.

Once they bought out the small mills they scrapped the ones that didnt have chip n saw headrigs that werent capapble of producing chips.

Check out the book "Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters."

Cheers.

this really seems to paint a dark picture?

Between the bug kill, forest fires and the collapse of the housing in the US. I think it is time we rethink the way we use our #1 resource. I think we need to take back the control on our fibre.

We have had a good ride for a relatively long time, it has made a few billionares and a whole swack of millionaires along the way.

We are in such a horrible race to give away our resources to whomever that wants to buy it.

We have good resources, the government has to come into the play, where every cubic meter of fibre removed from the forest has to provide so many manhours of employment.

These hours can be either through direct employment from logging contractors, logging truck drivers, sawmills, reforestation companies. The secondary industry hours can not count. Tie the timber supply to the region, and call it a green approach.

This will ensure that we are not going to exhaust our resources without making viable employment for the local region. Will this get us out of the competition race, it will for a bit. But eventually as the rest of the world starts to understand why we do this, they too will accept the pricinpals of this idea. All the lumber and plywood in a average 1500 sf home don't even account for $20,000.00. Will increasing this by $1,000 stop the consumer from building a house.

Stop exporting raw logs, is a good start.

The results of industry for industries sake or is it a result of industry for employment sake.
Business does not exist to employ, business exists to make money. Employment is a business cost.

The first rule of business is: make money
The second rule of business is: no money is made until a product is sold

The first rule of sales is: find a need and fill it
The second rule of sales is: if there is no perceived need to be filled, create the need.

....and the first rule of government is to represent the people!

no, the first rule of government is to be elected.
The second rule is to be re-elected.

How are we going to erradicate these thieves? A new perspective by the governing political party. BC Refederation is the only hope. All the other parties are the same old-same old.