Pope and Talbot News

The former Pope & Talbot Inc. pulp mill in Halsey, Ore., has been reopened. Cascade Pacific Pulp LLC, the mill's new owners, said in a news release Tuesday the mill's operations have resumed after seven weeks of laying dormant ...

Pope and Talbot's former pulp mill in Halsey, Ore., is expected to restart soon, now that it's been bought, but the communities of Fort St. James and Mackenzie continue a waiting game as the bankruptcy of the Portland, Ore. based company continues to unfold.

"There's even the same old, grungy couch," he observed Monday. What has changed since he left is the new carbon tax, which comes into effect next week.

The new Forests Minister, former agriculture minister Pat Bell, will face a tough re-election battle if there is no measurable progress in his portfolio. In his own riding, towns such as Mackenzie have been virtually emptied of jobs. Mr. Bell was cautious in projecting any kind of turnaround and would not promise any mills reopening in his riding before the next election.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell is making some major changes to his cabinet as he prepares for an election less than a year away.

Campbell is also shuffling some of the current cabinet ministers. Colin Hansen returns to his former position as finance minister, replacing the outgoing Carole Taylor, and Pat Bell is the new forests minister, leaving the agriculture post.

Carol Perron says she can't come right out and say it, but deep down she knows she's making plans for two deaths: her husband's and her community's. Ms.

Carol Perron says she can't come right out and say it, but deep down she knows she's making plans for two deaths: Her husband's and her community's. Perron lives in Mackenzie, a forest industry town in B.C.'s ...

The new owners of the former Pope & Talbot Inc. pulp mill in Halsey, Ore., on Friday said work at the dormant mill could restart next week.

Prince George North MLA Pat Bell says the government is working hard to help Mackenzie deal with the latest mill closure.

On the eve of a sale to an out-of-state investment firm, former Pope & Talbot employees at the Halsey mill started reapplying for their jobs Wednesday.

Pope & Talbot's Mackenzie pulp mill is on shaky ground now that Canfor has confirmed plans to close its sawmill in the same area.

A Minnesota investment firm has been cleared by a bankruptcy judge to purchase Halsey's Pope & Talbot pulp mill, which put 180 people out of work when it closed in May.

Officials at Wayzata Investment Partners have declined to comment on their future plans for the mill. The Minnesota firm, which specializes in private equity and hedge funds, purchased the mill for $31.15 million.

The fate of three sawmills in British Columbia is on hold after the B.C. Supreme Court granted another extension to bankruptcy proceedings today....

Only Canfor Corp. (TSX:CFP) lawyer Shelley Fitzpatrick opposed the extension

A key question in the embattled community of Mackenzie is whether a buyer will be secured for the bankrupt Pope and Talbot pulp mill, with residents hoping a sale will put a few hundred people back to work.

Mackenzie residents were trying Wednesday to absorb the latest economic hit to their community, the closure of the last major wood products mill, as well as figure out how it could impact the potential sale of the shuttered Pope and Talbot pulp mill. ...

Canfor's decision to shut down its sawmill at Mackenzie ends the last remaining supply of wood chips in the northern resource town needed to re-start the idled Pope & Talbot pulp mill......... Receiver Mike Vermette has already received bids for the Pope & Talbot mills and is to report to B.C. Supreme Court Friday on whether a quick sale is possible. Coincidentally, at the same hearing, Canfor is applying to have its chip supply agreement with Pope & Talbot cancelled

An effort by United Steelworkers to nullify the most recent sale of a Pope & Talbot Inc.

Halsey millworkers' future The fate of 140 Halsey pulp mill workers grew cloudy again Tuesday after Wayzata Investment Partners of Minnesota won an auction Monday for the mill.

Bids for purchasing bankrupt Pope & Talbot's two B.C. pulp mills and solitary sawmill closed today, marking the end of a rushed sales process to find new owners for the mothballed operations and the 1,050 ...

For the second time in a week, the former Pope & Talbot Inc. pulp mill in Halsey has been sold at auction.... However, one of the losing bidders, James Hardie Building Products Inc., objected to the process. Bankruptcy trustee George L. Miller reopened the auction Monday

An employee - backed proposal to buy the idled Harmac pulp mill in Nanaimo, B.C. will be one of the bids being submitted for properties once owned by bankrupt forestry firm Pope & Talbot Ltd.