Anyone know how long these extensions can go on for?

I didn't think so. How come the people that know nothing, know it the loudest?

I have no idea what you mean by that.

I think the extensions can go on and on.....as long as the courts allow it.
Pretty sad considering so many people were led to believe the mill would be running again in the fall....and they're still waiting.

Too bad another owner can't be found to run this mill. Bucky will only run on your tax dollars, government grants, loans,(which he doesn't pay back) and anybody else he can swindle. Local management is told nothing,which adds to the confusion. Although some think, or give the impression they know.( We're starting up June 15th, July 2nd, August 15th, Sept. 1st, Oct. 1st......) Local management will never be trusted because they are not in the loop. Employees were told in Nov./08 and Feb./09 "we're holding our own", then get shut down the following week. Some employees have been called to start up the little package boiler to heat the mill. It's like trying to heat your whole house with a candle. It will never work. There WILL be damage very, very soon if the mill doesn't start up in the near future.

I am hopeful that the mill will open and allow the employees and contractors of TBPI to get back to work. It will be almost 10 mths since the closure. In my last couple of years with Buchanan, I had to opportunity to work around Terrace Bay since the sawmills went down and enjoyed it greatly. I have moved on but am disappointed in the way Senior Management (not the Buchanan's) have selected who stayed on and who was let go. Out of every 5 employees kept, only about 2 are valuable. Proper evaluation of staff was not done. In a restructuring of a company you must make changes everywhere including upper management not just middle. This could prove devasting in the long run should Terrace Bay and any of the Sawmills fire up. I have many co-workers and contractors in the the region who are very good friends so I hope all this turns the corner soon and people go back to earning a living, because time is ticking by for the idled mill.

I pity your friends with the totally incompetant and underqualified jerk running the logging contractors and wood deliveries. Yanking them this way and that, on again off again, get ready to go then nothing, is almost criminal. He couldn't afford to run his personal household like that and he simply has no idea - he is in way over his head.

I can't say I disagree on that one greenstoner.

"Terrace Bay is on the map"...thanks to Howard Hampton, who had the guts to stand up in parliment and express true facts about Buchanan Forrest products, not "assumptions"...as some locals want to believe. Anyone who grew up in this Northern Ontario region and has known of Ken Buchanan from personal experience with him, knows that Mr.Hampton speaks THE TRUTH!!!!...shame on you, Mr. Frico!!!...How long will it take for all of us in Ontario....in CANADA, for that matter, to stop fearing these company ownwers and managers...it is a total, disgusting same what has happened, here in Northern Ontario in the Forrest Sector and unfortunately, for Terrace Bay, with Ken Buchanan as the owner, the timimg is not good for the truth to come out....but let the truth be told....is it not time for that?????

Let's throw a brick on a sinking ship to help them out. I feel for all the people affected by the downturn in the forest industry, being one of them i know the feeling. But....i think it's high time we all started looking at the facts. Newsprint market is DEAD..period. Fine paper is right on its tail. The numbers don't lie. The only thing i hope comes out of all this is that the pensions due to workers past and present are salvaged. They worked for them and deserve what they expected while putting into these plans. Jail time should be in order for a few people to let CEO scumbags know that what they have done to pension plans is not acceptable. Maybe in time , the markets will turn, but with the computer age upon us, i don't think it will ever be the same. Some mills which change gears and get into specialty papers can survive, but the majority will be gone forever in the very near future. It's not an industry that garners investors by the droves, and as taxpayers we, just because we are in the industry, should not be supporting an injection of government funding just to delay death of an already dead horse.