Re:Renewed demand for the metal cobalt is breathing new life...
by mabbo on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:31AM
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> the poverty stemming from having a single industry propping up the local economy
This is such a dangerous game and Ontario small towns have played it and lost for decades.
Consider Smith's Falls, Ontario. Hersey built a nice big chocolate factory there, employing half the town. The town grew, lots of local businesses began existing by offering goods and services to the employees of that factory. They even offered factory tours with a rejected chocolate bar store at the end, and kids like me would beg their parents to go on the tour.
And then Hersey closed the factory. Everyone lost their jobs, many of the businesses closed, even Walmart struggled.
Re:Renewed demand for the metal cobalt is breathing new life...
by randlet on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @02:40PM
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Interestingly the Hershey's factory has been reused as a large scale marijuana grow op although I suspect it employs far fewer people than the chocolate factory.
Re:Renewed demand for the metal cobalt is breathing new life...
by giarc on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @09:56PM
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I remember stopping there on school trips to Ottawa. Must have been a teachers nightmare to stop a school bus full of 14 year olds at a chocolate factory.
This is such a dangerous game and Ontario small towns have played it and lost for decades.
Consider Smith's Falls, Ontario. Hersey built a nice big chocolate factory there, employing half the town. The town grew, lots of local businesses began existing by offering goods and services to the employees of that factory. They even offered factory tours with a rejected chocolate bar store at the end, and kids like me would beg their parents to go on the tour.
And then Hersey closed the factory. Everyone lost their jobs, many of the businesses closed, even Walmart struggled.