Comments on: Responding to Weyerhaeuser’s Spin

By: Sheera MacFarlane

Sheera MacFarlane — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:01:08 +0000

Weyerhauser mucky muck Mr. Dennit VP or something or other of Strand Technologies has asked supporters of the mill via a newspaper article to please stop spreading rumours about the local mill here in Kenora Ontario. He has asked that people do not talk about things that they do not know. The Plant Manager Peter Mardon has allegedly stated in a downtown bar several friday nights ago that the people in Kenora have no idea what is going on and that the mill is not going anywhere. Perhaps Mr. Marden thinks that the citizens of Kenora somehow aren’t up to speed. Lets review what we do know, shall we?. Weyerhauser in Kenora has been here for approx. 5 years. According to our former Mayor Dave Canfield the plant has yet to make any money, according to Grassy Narrows First Nation the wood is being stolen, according to Enviromenmtalists Weyerhauser is raping the forest and poisoning the planet.According to published reports and employees production has pretty much been stalled, the yard is full of wood and stacked high with product. According to Fire Fighters this product and product of this nature experience cataclismic failure when exposed to fire. Mould and Fungi are of great concern with engineered lumber, as employyees can attest to as they remove mouldy boards from the wrapped product stored in the yard.Weyerhaeusers Quandrant Homes are lying to the public about their homes being green. Peter Marden Plant Manager has claimed that the mill is running great. What planet are you from or have you just not noticed that your plant is currently on a shut down schedule and press releases from Weyerhauser claims that even more shut downs , complete clousures of their facilities including engineered products may be coming in the near future. Your employees have speculated that there will be lay-offs coming in the new year. Many employees are currently seeking other employment. The work force that initially started at your plant has declined by half,your safety record is not acceptable. You are fighting several wrongful dismissal cases.Your company has been sued up the ying-yang for defective products, fraud, profitteering, enviromental crimes, monopolizing, worker comp claims for poisoning its employees, shall we go on? Well we could but the list of absolute failure by this company is endless, ask the province of Sask. how they faired with Weyerhauser, ask BC. How long is Weyerhaeuser going to pay employyees to go to work and not produce, we all know that this is not good for business.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:08:53 +0000

Yeah, that’s right. Im back.
All y’all are still in action, and so am I.
I have been warning people, telling everyone in my school and having the word spread through the district, telling students and parents alike. Weyerhaeuser is destroying the earth, and man kind alike. One forest at a time. I don’t think you realize, ANIMALS NEED TREES. Animals need trees to live, and HUMANS NEED ANIMALS TO LIVE. Without trees Weyerhaeuser will KILL MAN KIND.
Weyerhaeuser is just a large group of governmental MURDERERS.
With Weyerhaeuser in businness, mankind will DIE. WE NEED TO STOP Weyerhaeuser.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:32:32 +0000

That is a cop-out. The same thing is happening here in BC. It is like saying that the first nations people can have there land back when the negotiations have successfuly ended, but the animals, birds, plants and trees that are very important to their lives have disappeared, leaving nothing but a dessert.

By: frank stilson

frank stilson — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:50:44 +0000

I will do what is in my power never to purchase a product produced by weyerhaeuser until the day i die. I will work hard to convice others not to by from those that are killing mother earth. When these people take all thier money and try to purchase a safe place to live, with these people stop and relaize money cannot purchase life and sustainablility.

By: sheera Macfarlane

sheera Macfarlane — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:06:23 +0000

I have learned today that the Weyerhaeuser mill in kenora ontario canada is now down for another two weeks due to no one is buying their timberstrand/ilevel product . This follows being down for 5 weeks in Sept/Oct of this year as well. I spoke with two employees today and they both think that this mill will be down for the count very soon. According to these employees, management has eliminated contractors on site, no one will get any overtime, they are no longer required to work holidays and they do not produce 2 days out of the week when they are running, due to poor markets, the high canadaian dollar and the high cost of wood fibre, electricity, yadda yadda yadda. Maybe no one want’s to buy it because of the reputation Weyerhaeuser has built itself thru its actions and inactions, crimes against the planet, crimes against the people of this planet. Congradulations go out to the 129 workers that were poisoned by Mercury at the Weyerhaeuser Mill in Dryden Ontario who have been awarded Workers Compensation and it only took what 3 or has it been 4 years now. At least they didn’t have to wait 10 years like the 400 workers in North Carolina that Weyerhaeuser poisioned with asbestos. Pure Evil.

By: Sheera MacFarlane

Sheera MacFarlane — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:13:05 +0000

Bravo America! I have seen the devastation by Weyerhaeuser , this company is truly SCUM and all those who manage it. They are the worst case scenario of Corporate greed I have ever witnessed. Most of their products are crap, check out the lawsuits that prove it, I wouldn’t build a house out this crap if they gave it to me. Check out what firefighters have to deal with when this crap burns. Three dead firefighters so far from falling thru fast burning engineered floor joists. Will it come to the point that if you build with this plastic wood , you will not be able to get house insurance. It is costly, labour intensive and it is stolen. Oh yeah it contains Isocyanates, a highly toxic, designated substance in the same catogory as asbestos, arsenic , mercury etc. Don’t believe it? Check out what happened in Bhopal India over 20 years ago. Don’t buy Weyerhaeuser bullS**T and don’t buy their products.

By: jean morgese

jean morgese — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:16:44 +0000

reading these opinions, I have been enlightened.Iam disgusted angry disheartened you name it! If a new home of Weyerhouser products (or their ilk) was offered to me free, I would take a tent!!

By: Emily Ke.

Emily Ke. — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:44:28 +0000

I have been fightin Weyerhauser for almost a year.
I am glad they finally realize us, and the we ARE NOT joking. The person who inspired me to first begin to protest Weyerhauser recently passed away, still trying to make their point, and I WILL fight until they are not doing any more distruction.

By: Leigh McKeirnan

Leigh McKeirnan — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:27:08 +0000

I know first hand the despicable logging practices bankrolled by Weyerhaeuser. I was one of hundreds of people who lost value in their home when Weyerhaeuser bankrolled Eagleridge to log the landslides around Aldercrest Washington in the town of Kelso. 126 people lost their homes when they slid or were removed and the rest of us had to continue to live nearby in creaking homes that sink toward cliffs and shave doors that no longer open etc etc. My roof split apart in 7 places and water poured into my home. I called your company before they ever logged there and also brought all the endangered species to the attention of DNR forest offcials and State Wildlife. But Weyerhaeuser is a law unto it’s own. Your attorney’s callous letter stated kind of “so what” “if we didn’t do it someone else would have”. Well it was illegal in DNR forest practices to log landslides, eagle’s trees, pipelines that slid out and were reburied 150 ft deep. And then there were the streams that were clearcut, owl and red tail hawk and red salamander and bear habitat and old growth habitat that we all enjoyed in buffers that were to be protected in city codes. When I looked for another house I found out that you had bankrolled EAgleridge or the Powell family and others to log all sorts of illegal slide areas in our county and other pipeline areas and almost took out a bridge on the pristine Kalama River with it’s salmon hatcheries. Alan Miller of the LA Times Washington DC wrote a few articles intimating mafia connections with Weyerhaeuser and the US Forest Service back in about spring of 97. Then I found out a connection of names, with Mr Curry and the Powells and Dan Dale and others and CT Corporation and Weyerhaeuser and Waterfront Recreation and all sorts of places that you bankroll logging all over the states. I was so hoping Canada could contain your corruption and save itself. How do you live with yourself doing this to the world and it’s people. You are only shortening the lives of your own future grandchildren and great grandchildren by your shortlived greed in sponsoring illegal logging practices and ruining our few giant remaining old growth forests.

By: Donald Garlit

Donald Garlit — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:20:42 +0000

This looks bad – definitely not the no-spin zone on your part. I’m glad that I’m not a shareholder. In the long-run dealing with this bad publicity will cause management distraction from main affairs of company.