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Showing posts with label Kruger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kruger. Show all posts
22 February 2013

Live from the Orchestra Pit #nlpoli

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Newfoundlanders and Labradorians got a vivid example on Thursday of the Orchestra Pit Theory of Political reporting . For those who don’t ...
27 June 2012

Garnishee Tom’s pension first #nlpoli

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Spendthrift finance minister Tom Marshall is willing to spend your money and mine to keep the Corner Brook paper mill afloat. As CBC tells u...
11 June 2012

The Incendiary End Game in Corner Brook #nlpoli

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As a rule, when a cabinet minister speaks publicly about a private sector company’s significant financial problems, things are not good. N...
06 June 2012

The Precipice Looms #nlpoli

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Not surprisingly, Kruger issued an ultimatum on Tuesday to workers at its Corner Brook mill. CBC quoted the message from the company to the...
05 June 2012

The Kruger Nexus #nlpoli

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As an astute reader pointed out in a n e-mail Tuesday morning, the Hebron-Muskrat Falls connection is not really as important these days as...
04 June 2012

The paper-mill-sized elephant in the room… #nlpoli

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From the CBC online story about the meeting between a raft of grim-looking provincial politicians and Joe Kruger: Dunderdale said she exp...
18 May 2012

Death watch in Corner Brook for province’s last paper mill #nlpoli

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Kruger, the owners of Corner Brook Pulp and Paper , are reassessing the viability of the mill in the west coast city on Friday after unions...
25 January 2012

Corner Brook braces for job losses #nlpoli

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An internal Kruger memo leaked to news media suggest that the papermaker is planning to lay off upwards of 135 workers at the company’s ope...
06 May 2011

Not keen on government subsidies

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While it may have slipped by in the election hoopla on Monday, the people who decided to vote in a CBC online poll made it pretty clear they...
02 May 2011

Dunderdale admin pours more cash into Corner Brook paper mill

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On top of the millions in subsidies it has already provided to Corner Brook Pulp and Paper (Kruger), Kathy Dunderdale’s administration ann...
07 July 2010

Economic recovery – not exactly as illustrated, part two

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cbc.ca/nl is reporting an economic miracle in Grand Falls-Windsor. That’s the town where the major private sector employer closed its doo...
03 February 2010

Economic Recovery: Not exactly as illustrated

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By definition, anyone connected to “economic development” in any provincial government or quasi-government organization must be so positive ...
25 January 2010

How bad is it?

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You just know things are pretty tense in Corner Brook. You can tell because the provincial government has been pouring on the happy-talk w...
15 October 2009

Will Danny expropriate this one too?

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Kruger is talking cuts and concessions at the major private sector employer in the premier’s own district. So far, not a peep from the pr...
25 September 2009

Kruger announces two week shut-down

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Kruger announced Friday that Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited - the only paper mill left in the province - will idle the entire Corner B...
14 July 2009

Having big guns helps

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Paper maker Kruger may be getting additional financial help from the provincial government to keep its mill in Corner Brook operational. ...
25 June 2009

It’s not called Answer Period

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And sometimes you wonder if the cabinet minister involved doesn’t want to answer or doesn’t know the answer. Consider this exchange betwee...
24 June 2009

Kruger slashes 130 jobs in Corner Brook

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Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited announced Wednesday the company will not re-start the Corner Brook  mill’s idled Number 4 paper-making ...
03 March 2009

Cuts, reductions, layoffs

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1.  Vale Inco will be cutting jobs from its Canadian operations, including an unspecified number in Newfoundland and Labrador. 2.  Kruge...
07 January 2009

Kruger to trim production by 25K tonnes in first half of 2009

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A short news release from Kruger on Wednesday confirmed the company will shed 25,000 tonnes of production in the first half of 2009 with t...