Soaring electricity rates, high delivery costs, a rising Canadian
dollar and increased competition on the global market are just some of the
factors behind the crisis in the forest industry.
Norm Bush is the Ontario Vice-President for Weyerhaeuser and he spoke
at a forest industry crisis meeting in Dryden Tuesday night.
Bush says they need one major thing to happen to turn things around.
n042 runs: 12 sec. out…fibre costs.
The forest sector generates $19-billion annually and employees
275,000 people province-wide.
