Western Forest Products' Port Alberni mill closes as company seeks viable path

Posted: Jan. 27, 2023 10:31AMMore than 100 workers in Port Alberni are the latest forest-industry employees to face layoffs as Western Forest Products confirms it will not restart its sawmill in that Vancouver Island city. The Western Forest Products Inc. logo is shown in this undated handout.

The Alberni-Pacific Division facility has been closed since last fall, but the curtailment was only expected to last for six months, unless market conditions changed.

Is there any coal there? Lol

Seriously? No need for pulp products? This government needs diversifying .... get rid of the lobbyist that send our jobs overseas. We have resources here, we need jobs!!!

Another resource industry abandoned by the government...and what about the video from Project_Veritas with Pfizer admitting to mutating COVID, and saying their making vaccines for it already. Where's the reporting?

That’s fine… Just keep shipping those raw logs and jobs over seas.

get into mass Tree Planting initiative perhaps

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Western Forest Products' Port Alberni mill closes as company seeks viable pathThe Alberni\u002DPacific Division facility has been closed since last fall, but the curtailment was only expected to last for six months, unless market conditions… With all these mill closures, it's going to be harder to build new homes. This is the product of years of environmentalist resistance to the logging industry from citizens in big southern cities who've never left the Lower Mainland. The north has to pay the price.
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