Closure 'devastating'.Bishop Anthony Burton of Saskatchewan has urged the provincial and federal governments to "do everything in their power to rectify the situation" of the planned closure in January 2006 of Weyerhaeuser pulp and paper mill in Prince Albert Prince Albert, city (1991 pop. 34,181), central Sask., Canada, on the North Saskatchewan River. Prince Albert is a commercial and distribution center for a lumbering, gold- and uranium-mining, and mixed-farming area. There are wood-products and meatpacking industries. , Sask., which employs 690 people. "This decision is a devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. blow to the employees and to the families of innumerable others who have built their lives as contractors of the mill," said Bishop Burton
Weyerhaeuser officials blamed "poor market conditions" for the company's decision to either mothball moth·ball n. 1. A marble-sized ball, originally of camphor but now of naphthalene, stored with clothes to repel moths. 2. mothballs a. or seek a buyer for the mill. Bishop Burton said the diocese is offering its prayers and pastoral support to those affected by the closure. |
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