scott roberts wrote on Feb 25, 2008 8:35 PM:
Congratulations. I think the ability to generate 70 new jobs for our area is a real blessing. It is also exciting to know that Coos Bay will be the only producer of chromite in the US. Ninety percent of the cromite utilized in the US is imported from South Africa. I think that Cheryl Wilson (by the way - a Marshfield High School graduate) and the rest of Oregon Resources Corporation employees currently working on developing the project, should be commended for their efforts on the behalf of their company and our community.
excited Oregonian wrote on Feb 25, 2008 7:19 PM:
I am soo glad to hear that there will be more job oportunities here. but do peopleactually realize how many old chromite mines are in that same area that have been environmentally put back to make it habitat friendly? By the way it sounds some people who are apposed to this process actually live close to old mines and are very healthy, as well as the land that was mined in the past. Kudo's to A job well done. I am backing ORC 100% and will do anything to support this for our community.
Bill wrote on Feb 23, 2008 8:13 AM:
wow 70 jobs... how many people will move to the area that have he job skills? The good paying employers here have a hard time finding drug free, good, reliable and skilled labor as it is in this area. So the people that live in that area will now have to deal with a industrial mining operation in their back yards running all day and all night... with the majority of the money being made for the foreign company who owns the mining corporation. Anyone know what a foreign company does when there is an environmental accident? They abandon ship and leave the cleanup to the local government. But hey there are more jobs!
Coos Bay Citizen wrote on Feb 23, 2008 6:24 AM:
Another typically arrogant remark by John Griffiths. Isn't it reassuring to have a commissioner who is so closed-minded as to rule out the possibility that he is ever wrong (at least in his own mind)? Remind anyone else of a particular sitting President of the United States who's also never been wrong about anything? Yeah for jobs regardless of impact. Hey I hear they're looking for a place to store nuclear waste. Any volunteers? I mean besides John Griffiths.
NONE wrote on Feb 22, 2008 9:53 PM:
Please let me know when the hiring begins. I am quite familiar with chromite and its uses. But knowing how the hiring process is in this town, only the ones who brown nose or are related to "someone higher up" will get the jobs.
Linda wrote on Feb 22, 2008 4:45 PM:
To Coos Bay Native, yeah and bunkerhill could use a good cleaning up. Your kids work where, are they some of the few lucky's that have a good enough job to feed their kids? Some people like dangerous work, my Dad was a tree faller for 46 years and raised eight kids, said he wouldn't change it for nothing. But that's when men were men!
COOS BAY NATIVE wrote on Feb 22, 2008 3:39 PM:
How many realize that the people in this area that I have always lived in have the perceptiveness of an enraged gorilla and the entrepreneurship of a cadaver? Chromite processing? I suppose there are people who will believe any offer of employment is valuable, even one which damages the area they live in or the health they so desperately strive for, even taking dozens of pills. I have several children. They all grew up here and all of them that WANTED to stay here have done so. Life should never be handed to anybody on a silver platter. Get real people, a job is not all there is to life. A good, safe job should be what we want for our kids and the others around us. This is not that opportunity. You will all lament this in 20 years I am sure (anybody else remember another Bunker Hill area mining enterprise)?
Linda wrote on Feb 22, 2008 2:32 PM:
More jobs besides Burger King, McDonalds,Taco Bell and Subway, I'm so excited. Maybe someones child can decide to stay here!
Thomas wrote on Feb 22, 2008 1:18 PM:
Perhaps the Comdens should agree with local and state officials that ORC has met the zoning guidelines. In the meantime, they hold up 70 families from good wages and benefits. "I've got mine, you can't have yours" is not the attitude the Bay Area needs!
Richard wrote on Feb 22, 2008 12:23 PM:
This is good news...really good news! Though it's a sorry state of affiars that there will always be a few people who oppose virtually all business ventures.
Gene wrote on Feb 22, 2008 12:12 PM:
Finally, the project can go forward and 70 people will be able to find employment. It doesn't sound like very much but 70 families with a job makes a big difference in this area. I hope now that people like the ones in Bandon will keep out of the way of progress and see that the money they spent on attorneys was just a waste.
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