Curtailments

Tanner McQuarrie, president of Unifor Local 1132, said his members saw the suspension of operations coming after numerous curtailments were extended over the last year.

Thirteen mills in B.C. were either closed permanently or went through lengthily curtailments over the past 14 months, including the permanent closures of the Catalyst paper operation in Crofton and Western Forest Products’ Port Alberni sawmill.

And I think this year was like $63 million and maybe you spent like nothing in the fourth quarter because of the curtailments that you took.

More barrels are expected to be placed in storage if prices remain low, Murphy said, a situation that, in part, led to Alberta’s imposition of production curtailments last year as a glut of oil in Western Canada prompted steep price discounts.

Shipping more bitumen by rail would free up space on export oil pipelines, he added, helping to relieve a glut of trapped oil in Alberta that led to the province imposing production curtailments this year after price discounts soared last fall.

Permanently eliminate the structural deficit, thereby avoiding curtailments of existing programs.

The independent Catholic Church in Poland was subjected to property confiscations and other curtailments from 1949, and in 1950 was pressured into signing an accord with the government.