Forest consultant Rob Schuetz not surprised Canfor mill shutting down. Quesnel might be next on pulp closure list.
As a forest industry consultant, Rob Schuetz has been crunching numbers watching timber supplies fall and for many months and the math he’s been doing has been ringing alarm bells.
“The bottom line is that they need at least two to three million cubic metres a year of pulp logs, and where do you find that when the is dropping,” said Schuetz. “All the mills are operating now but where do they get their wood?” asked Schuetz. “They looked forward and it looks so bleak with regard to sawmill operating rates over the next six months and all that’s another nail in the coffin.
“In Prince George, the shortfall in chips was almost two million cubic metres of pulp logs they needed to make up,” said Schuetz. “In Quesnel, it’s probably not quite a million, but that’s still a few years away. But then it looks bad. By 2027 they’ll be scratching their heads thinking is it worth it to continue to operate.”
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