Sawdust Shortage

[ARKANSAWYER]

  I sent a reply to a contact on that web site.  He will be out next week to look at my cedar slabs.  Looks like we got a deal cooking.  I have 3 TT loads a sitting right now.

[Handy Andy]

  Stonebroke, fraid I'd have to move.  But it's goin that way everwhere nowdays.

[Tim]

I sit here rather amused to see that a sawdust shortage made the front page of the Wall Street Journal...

We spent 18 months fighting with the Ontario Ministry of Environment when they said that sawdust was a waste and we had to pay a consultant to determine if it was having an adverse effect on the environment... 4 mills went nipples north because of the consulting fees and charges of failing to heed a provincial order.

There is a sawdust shortage because of the high Canadian dollar, the softwood lumber trade practices and the US housing turmoil. Our mills here are not working... vis a vis... no sawdust.

Okay... I've gone from amused to really PO'd back to amused again. I'm just glad that we accidentally had to change away from making lumber to making shingles...