The Sun is Setting on Red Rock

I guess we spoke a little too soon. Red Rock made the front page of the local newspaper after all. It's a good article, although the writing isn't fantastic. This is a very sad, confusing and emotional time for this tiny community (about an hour Northeast of Thunder Bay - population 1000), where the liner board mill owned by Norampac, Inc. was the major employer. People are in a daze - out of work, ill-prepared to "adapt" to "the prevailing negative impact of several economic factors" (the mills recruited most of its workers right out of high school... before they graduated), standing helplessly by as the value of their homes drop (to less than $15,000 each, it is rumoured). People are losing both their livelihoods and their home. Maybe dazed isn't the most appropriate word - traumatized would be more accurate.

The link to the article on Red Rock.

The link to Norampac Inc.'s press release, which is very clear about the increase in profitability in the period before the mill in Red Rock closed and obtuse about the reasons why the corporation closed the mill. Yes, the mill itself is old and expensive. But whose fault is that?