IMO you have Isle Pierre close by with the new highway over pass road accessing the area near Clear Lake with rail access for the finished product. Clear Lake was their only non-union outfit making it an easy one to close up shop. Up North in Chetwynd and Mackenzie they needed the employees (especially the trades) and that's where most will likely end up.

On the other hand Rustads is the only Canfor mill with rail access to the log yard for raw logs from remote locations where all the fiber will be in the coming years. Its only a matter of time before that strength is utilized. Also rumor is that Winton Global next decision date is sometime in February when logs can potentially start rolling into that mill again.... They say $500 a thousand board feet over the next few years (American commodities inflation from printing too much money).

"They say $500 a thousand board feet over the next few years (American commodities inflation from printing too much money)."
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The coming boom before the equally certain bust that will follow. And still we can't get away from discerning 'inflation' from 'prosperity'. Oh well, enjoy it while it lasts. It'll give the new Premier something to crow about as he further deludes us with a difference always initially overlooked. Maybe someday, if the next bust is bigger than this one has been, we'll finally learn. Maybe not, we haven't ever so far.

eaglone rustads will never be!

Well pgguru eaglone is right anyway with when he said on the other hand Rustads is the only Canfor mill with rail access to the log yard for raw logs from remote locations where all the fiber will be in the coming years and Its only a matter of time before that strength is utilized. What i'm saying is rumor has it from many soarces that Rustad was starting back up in Febuary. I thought yeah right that'll never happen just like your thinking that it would never be. I was a rustad employee and i'm hearing it from other fellow employees and other soarces that Rustad is to reopen in Febuary. This is what I'm hearing... my uncles a truck driver and he knows alot of other truck drivers and one saying excell already has the word of them shpping out of the mill again comming soon, A distributor in town that supplies work gloves etc received a huge order for rustad now put the two together aswell I heard from a fellow employee and with his high soarces thers to be a big announcement in January for the reopening of rustad so what could never be you say may and well be. Now that clear Lake is out of the picture being the only non-unionized mill in canfor mr shepard can close mills down for 2 yrs at a time like shuffling a deck of cards to avoid paying buyouts so before july of this year I can see rustad and possibly radium and vanenby reopen I also see in the comming future 2 other canfor mills will fall victom to and indefinate closure for 2 yrs and then repeats over and over like i said like a deck of cards to avoid paying severence.

iam ignorant in this, but can canfor sit on this mill untill the boom starts then reopen with lets say 12/hr employees?and do this practice over and over?without any legal action on past employees/

Yes Canfor can sit on a mill untill a boom starts look at carrier lumber, there fighting a court order to pay severence to employees after the mill permantly shutdown in 2009. Do you think Canfor wants to pay severence to any other employees at there mills besides Clear Lake. Clear Lake was the only mill that had a permenent closer if shutdown in there contract. Now that there out of the way does canfor want to pay more severence on rustad radium and vanenby i doubt that for a second ..they would go bottoms up. SO they would have no choice but to reopen the mills and unfortunately shutdown another one or two over and over if thats what they want to do and your saying why they can do this without legal action is because of money and bc government and canfor are like married to one another. Its like the board game "Risk" Rustad and its location and rail tracks into the log yard is boardwalk and park place for the comming boom so thats why there sitting on it and not permently closing the mill down. its stradegy permently closing clear lake and reopen rustads cause rustads has all the needs at this point in time its closer and it has rail tracks. When the lumber market was down on 09' they sut us down and now the comming boom and $500 a thousand board feet why would they not reopen rustad.

let me re write that lol When the lumber market was down in 09' they shut us down and now the comming boom and projected at $500 a thousand board feet for the next few years why would they not reopen rustad.
we are in the perfect location only reason of the mill was shutdown was the market once it picks up it will be up and running.

bozo the clown i missed writing about your comment about reopen with lets say 12/hr employees well they shut rustad down before the other mills agreed on paycuts to stay running we didn't because we were being shutdown so if rustad started back up our payroll remains the same as before the shutdown cause there was no vote on any paycut for rustad at that time or new contract made. so no $12 an hr employees there.

canuckfan,move on buddy,what u missing the pre lug or the 2 way.cheers!lots of jobs out ther now!

we have all fallen into a typical northern problem i think ,that is one or two very large firms dominate the whole infastructure and hold us hostage to their demands,maybee more smaller mills privatly owned would help. but i feel thats a stupid comment, anyway their practice seems very disturbing

Rustad's starting back up in February? Hmmmm they are missing key pieces of equipment. Chip screens, board stamper in the Tray sorter was ripped out and put in the Chetwynd mill. And it's kind of hard to run without computers as they have mysteriously disappeared. Good spare parts were thrown in the garbage that can't be or are very expensive to replace. There is also the 22 Inch Barker dust explosion incident that has to be addressed by Canfor before they can start back up. Something that the lying management at the time tried to sweep under the carpet.

Why start up a dead horse before putting the rest of their money making operations on three shifts?

Who would come back to Rustads if they did start back up? I think 50% will be new hires at the 15.00/hr rate negotiated by the Steel Workers. Unless they only start up one 10 man shift to cut rough lumber for China. The rest will be those who couldn't or didn't want to find work in the last 18 months.

Oh and why did they shut down Clear Lake? "a lack of economic long-term fibre supply". That was a problem before the economic downturn.

On the other hand Rustads is the only Canfor mill with rail access to the log yard for raw logs from remote locations where all the fiber will be in the coming years.

Sorry to tell you Eagleone but Canfor-Polar div has rail access to the log yard.

I'm not sure about that Bill. Isn't it just a mainline that runs adjacent... not a spur line where they could stage rail cars for unloading. The grade to get up the bank to the log yard for a spur line would be expensive I would think....

No one has been surveying Rustads for restart and they continue to take parts out for their other operations.

The money Canfor announced will most likely be spent at Plateau, PG Saw and Polar.