Here's a couple of points for you to consider Stephenville when the Ministers, the Premier, and the "consultant" tell you it's all over for finding a new operator.
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Local Issues
- High electricity costs. Mills use large amounts of electricity, and in many jurisdictions, prices have been shooting up. In Ontario, the increase has been as much as 30 per cent over four years as discounts for manufacturers were phased out.
- Inadequate wood supplies. Moves to reduce unsustainable forest "harvests" so there will be trees to cut in the future, or for environmental reasons or competing uses such as tourism, have squeezed mills in Eastern Canada. Most dramatically, Quebec decided in early 2005 to slash allowable cuts by 20 per cent over three years.
How are other provinces going to deal with it?
"Quebec will spend $450 million over three years to ease the industry's pain, it said in October 2005, and in September, Ontario promised $330 million over five years."
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Newfoundland and Labrador $????????
Also you guys on the peninsula, I hope you are watching the energy plan and developments closely. You'll know soon enough if the Premier ever thinks you'll need the power. Not if he thinks you are going to perish as a community.
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1 comment:
Thanks for the link. Interesting even if it is just stating the obvious.
If Labrador only had an Ice free port alot of the woes of what to do with the fibre resource there would be rectified along with mineral processing.
Labrador has Wood fibre, Minerals galore, Electricity enough to spare not even considering the undeveloped. It just needs a ice free port to allow access to markets year round.
From what I've been researching Rigolet could be made into a year round port quite easily but it is isolated with no roads connecting it with the larger population centre of HVGB.
The Workings of Stephenville could be moved to HVGB for a paper mill there lots of fibre lots of power no year round port but if Rigolet was made accessible by road the winter months when Lake Melville is frozen over access could be provide through Rigolet. Not an idea situation but maybe a stop gap measure. Ideally HVGB should be accessible year round inorder to have any industry set up there.
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