Has to be the thunderstorms we have had lately.

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Three Canfor fires in the last month...wonder what this does to insurance rates? 'Course they won't have to pay severance to the workers at the plywood plant.

If they don't rebuild they will.

Yes, clean up can be cut back. While it may not effect production, it does become a safety issue. A insurance company may reject a claim due to liability issues, if a company is at fault. The amount of fires reported in sawmills in the past 6 months is evident.

Plateau sawmill is a fire waiting to happen IMO. The conveyor that feeds the beehive burner from the mill to the East of the beehive burner carries 3 tons a minute of hog fuel into the wind to feed the beehive burner. Basically in the shadow of the beehive burner is overflow chip piles, plus 8 chip bins, and a sawdust bin a little further down. At night when you drive by Plateau on the highway you can see the sky glow from 10 kilometers away with flames coming out the top of the burner and sparks carry at least another 300 feet in the air from the top of the burner. A down draft out of the west could have horrible results.

IMO Vanderhoof couldn't get a co-gen plant up and running fast enough. They have the feedstock from Plateau alone to provide the electric power needs for the entire Bulkly Valley with the added benefit of no beehive burner fire scenarios and a place for the waste to produce further value. I'm not sure what the wait is for....

Too much production capacity today. Let a few mills burn down, and good bye problem.

Sure, who needs jobs when you're on welfare.