Brianna Hanson, Director of Marketing and Sales at Oregon Resources spoke at the October 30, 2012, BOC meeting and things don’t sound good for the company. Coos County is slated to discuss a proposed surface use lease on November 26 but it may be too little, too late to save ORC.
HANSON: In order to preserve the remaining jobs that we have, the most important thing is to …. continue mining. We only have enough reserves right now to in order to run at a level needed to break even for eight years. Eight years of material is not enough to get our customers or investors to make the decisions that we need them to make in order to preserve the company and the jobs. Again, that break even level its really eight years not enough to keep the current (?) level that we are running at… At this stage I don’t really know if we can convert the customers that we need to to keep us going, if we can go any further at this rate and I don’t know if this funding will preserve those jobs.
Technical difficulties prohibited Coos Media from filming yesterday’s meeting and the video and audio are cell phone footage. Some of the audio is inaudible but I did my best with the partial transcription above. Currently, my video streaming service is down due to #HurricaneSandy but I will post the video as soon as possible.
And former county commissioner Griffith who walks on water and wants everyone to know he does tells us that we should rush into signing a lease with these people who will not be in business so 17 years from now we get paid a total of $40,000. Time to ignore him also as the people have ignored mining experts Messerle, Parry, Barton, Pettit, Benton, Grile, Benetti. Wasn’t it Griffith who for the last four years of his term was consumed by the snowy plover while Rome burned (a fire that he now blames on Main)?
OK… So “The Big Tin Shed” did not work out. How about a train station in Empire complete with an Ice Cream parlor? Now wouldn’t THAT be a nice boondoggle for the local yokels!