Churchill terminal closing

[farming101]

[URL="http://www.producer.com/2016/07/grain-to-stop-moving-through-churchill/"]http://www.producer.com/2016/07/grain-to-stop-moving-through-churchill/[/URL]

[parsley]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/port-of-churchill-closes-30-people-given-layoff-notices-388198572.html

[farmaholic]

Why would Shippers want to ship through there? Its not "theirs".

[parsley]

What a difference a trainload of grain makes for farmers. For next year.

The Saudis' CWB seems alert enough.

Graincars are sent back down the railroad it was already hauled up on. No problem.

Farmers scratch their heads.

Mute Merv is yet unfound, but will most likely be heard joyously singing, "I once was lost but now am found." No problem.

The port is now financially screwed and the selling-price of the port will drop to a once in a blue-moon price.

Moon. Yes, well. The lunar-moon men noticed.

Think Saudis will partner with taxpayer-funded Northern natives to buy the port? No protests. Trudeau will be presented with new moccasins

Farmers will keep combining.

Will Saudis also buy an additional interest in the CWB? wlWith Ritz' 2016 neverending blessings?

Will Saudis also buy the railroad from Winnipeg to Churchill? And high-five?

Will Saudis build more mosques in the North; aka theological training centres? Complete with electronic equipment?

Will Trudeau train northerners to train Northerners to be Customs agents?

Will streams of entrants begin to arrive through Churchill and the 'ports arrival' stats rise?

After Canadian farmers are presented with a plaque by the CWB for being business-minded, they buy more fertilizer.

The northern port of Churchill will become renowned as the leading strategic military and intelligence port in the world. Just not for Canadians.

Will our Western politicians get national awards for their conversational French lessons, whilst Northern politicians get national awards for conversational Arabic lessons, both yearly, in Churchill Manitoba?

Port. Say the word and remember it.

[MBgrower]

The russians or chinese should buy and send fertilezer back to the prairies. Build a few collection sites on the praires and distribute from those points.

[rockpile]

Durka, Durka!

[BreadWinner]

Im afraid I will be one of last farmers to tour this great giant in the north. Last fall I was there as the last vessel pulled away. Without a company in western Canada with a stake in the port it will never ship another bushel. It is 1920s technology every chute and distributor has a rope and a man attached. It takes 70 guys to run this big old tank. The only reason it ran the past ten years is because it was heavily subsidized and not because it was needed. Dont worry Im sure the CWB big wigs even got a bonus for every bushel that went out the Hudsons Bay. all the big grain corps just finished expanding their ports so why would they ship north. With Ocean freights at all time lows the savings of shipping north would not be noticable.

[parsley]

Unless oil and grain were a team.

[stonepicker]

Poor track, poor location, poor facility. It was never feasible, too bad.

[tweety]

Its pretty obvious what happens to a business when interim payments that should have gone to farmers no longer fund it.

[blackpowder]

A logical event foretold years ago.

[bucket]

....the Saudis will get a piece of this for pennies on the dollar.


And Canada will spend billions expensing bullets fighting the Saudis war.

Saudis are getting a hell of a deal.....assets in Canada while we expense the war we can't afford.

Can't get that money back but Canada could spend some money on infrastructure assets.

And here I thought omnitrax was suppose to be doing the upkeep on the rail. Guess that went to the shareholders.

[bucket]

Parsley

The Saudis have upped their stake in G3 already and diluted the farmers share accordingly.

Bunge almost out of the picture already.

Ritz should be getting a bunge board seat there fairly soon.

[wilagro]

Pretty sure the old CWB deal was a set-up from the word go. Please the Saudis, give Bunge an out through share sales and options. Provide the Saudis with an edge. Screw the farmers who got sucked into selling a small percentage of their output. No cash deal, all promissory notes, promise to build more PORT facilities, bluff and bluster. Good press and sound bites. Solved the Ritz promise to unload the old CWB and saved face all around.

The big Saudi war materials contract may have been in the background, hard to guess what went on behind closed doors. Harper and his corporate lovers seemed to be behind a lot of things kept secret from the average Canadian.

Above all...farmer's interests came last...politician's interests came FIRST.

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[parsley]

Churchill represents many things that should be uppermost in most Western Canadians' minds.

1. Most important is it is an alternate grain export route for Western grain so we can bypass the likes of Denis Coederre, and the countless Quebec Western-haters who have preceded him and will follow him. Prairie farm groups should be burning the candle at nights working with large oil companies to partner with, in saving the port, and rebuilding it. Oil and grain are natural allies. Trump will be elected and oil will flow again.

2. Churchill is a military asset. There is no reason why the Federal Govt cannot expend military manpower to help rebuild the railroad.

3 The Saskatchewan Govt and Western Grain checkoffs could be approached to make meaningful investment in lighter grain cars.

4. Churchill Port is a strategic intelligence asset. Manitoba has every good reason in the book to support the keeping the road community accessible.

5. Teamwork is necessary here. A team willing to immediately put the good of agriculture and safety and oil, in western Canada, come first.

6. A northern pipeline could be built by a major oil company running alongside the railroad. Working together.

7. Under no circumstances. None. Should Saudi Arabia be allowed to buy any more Canadian assets.

None.

8. The provinces of Sask. and Manitoba and farmers and oil should be on this like dogs in spring.

it's time Canadians stopped being lazy and stupid.

Parsley.