Pope & Talbot's sale of its pulp mills to PT Pindo Deli, including its mill in Mackenzie and its sawmill in Fort St. James, have failed to meet an April 30 deadline.
However, Pope & Talbot spokesman Mark Rossolo said Thursday the transactions are still planned to go ahead.
Rossolo noted that company's bankruptcy financing has been extended to May 5.
The Fort St. James sawmill has been closed since mid-October. It has put about 280 sawmill workers off the job in Fort St. James,
---- PG Citizen
If you're one of those 280 with a family, with as little as three or four EI cheques remaining what do you do? Wait for the kids to finish school and wait some more?
Risk spending the summer on Welfare, still waiting?
Make the arrangements to leave now and give yourself a minimum hedge with that remaining EI while you seek work elsewhere?
Or wait, wait and wait some more, and hope for the best? How long will it take to recoup from 9 months without work?
How will the mill itself cope with many of it's skilled staff who have already made the choice and left, and many more poised to?
What of the lackadaisical response of our town and its people to this crisis? Subdued, resigned, 'stiff upper lippers' who proved once again that inaction is worth 1,000 words of shame? We've proven ourselves forever to be a place that rises to the occasion when a family or person needs help. What have we done when the entire town does?
Where are the letters to the Editor, the ringing of the phones in our MLA and MP's offices? The street marches and the marches on Victoria and Ottawa who could have aided a solution? Too late, we hear the voices of S.T.R.O.N.G. on what we should have done six months ago.
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