978. Town Crisis
Robinson smiled and said, "This lady is right. We are Dow Chemical employees, such gentlemen, we..."
Qin Shiou looked at his parents and interrupted the man and said, "Now we are having a meal. Let's talk after dinner, okay?"
The Dow Chemicals nodded and left, but they did not stay at Dad Hickson for dinner in the end, and the stubborn old man refused to entertain them.
The food was served, and Qin Shiou asked Winnie to have dinner with her parents. He went to find Hickson's father and asked, "Hey, what's going on? When did the Dow Chemical people come?"
The old man snorted and said, "I just came in the morning. They had been here once before and wanted to convince Mayor Hani to allow them to build a chemical factory on the island. Mayor Hani disagreed and refused on the grounds of the residents' wishes. These guys did not give up and came again."
Obviously, this time the Dow Chemical people came prepared. They changed their strategies and no longer contacted Hani. Instead, they visited the town residents one by one, playing the trick of "the strong fortress is always broken from the inside."
After dinner, Qin Shiou did not go back. He stayed in the town for a walk to see what Dow Chemical wanted to do.
He went to find a grocery store, and only the new accountant Zhang Peng, who had just arrived, was in the process of reconciliation. When he saw Qin Shiou, he stood up and said respectfully: "Boss, you are here, is there anything?"
Qin Shiou waved his hand and asked, "Where is that guy, Xiao Hughes?"
Zhang Peng said: "Boss Hughes went to find his brother. He said that it was abominable guys like Dow Chemical and he had to find a way to drive them away."
Qin Shiou went to the Hughes convenience store, and Hughes was indeed here. In addition to him, there were also a few young people from small towns, dressed up neatly in denim clothes and carried baseball bats, golf bats or sticks in their hands.
Seeing this, Qin Shiou shook his head helplessly and said, "Hi. I said, guys, what are you doing? Hum? Go to fight? Then be arrested?"
When Xiao Hughes saw his eyes lit up, he shouted with a fist, "Sit! Those dogs and bastards deserve to be beaten! I have said to them hundreds of times that saying goodbye to the island doesn't welcome them. Next time I come, I will kick their butts. Today they are here again, of course I have to give them some color!"
Great Hughes pushed him and said angrily: "When will you be more mature? Play and play all day! Do you think you are a mafia? Farke!"
After scolding his younger brother, he looked at Qin Shiou and smiled relaxedly, "Qin, it's great that you can come back. I went to the fishing ground to find you a few days ago, and Winnie also said that your return date is not yet determined. Very good. We will have a leader when you come back."
"The guy who took the lead in driving away the Dow Chemical?" Qin Shiou sat down with a smile.
Hughes still had a fierce expression, so he had to press his hands and signal him to sit down: "Who can tell me the situation in detail? I don't think I know the current situation very well."
Hughes grind him a cup of hot coffee, then lie on the counter and introduces it.
Dow Chemical is the second place in the world's chemical industry, second only to DuPont in the United States. They mainly develop and produce a series of chemical products, plastics and agrochemical products. They are used in the fields of construction, water purification, papermaking, medicines, transportation, food and food packaging, household goods and personal care.
Now with the popularity of biochemical engineering, large chemical companies have begun to transform, researching and producing organic chemical products from biofeeding materials such as grains, soybeans and wheat.
Canada is a major agricultural country with abundant agricultural products and supplies. It has always been at the forefront of the world in this regard. However, Dow Chemical is relatively weak in this regard, especially in Canada, and there is no relevant production line. So they want to enter this industry.
Dow Chemical Canada's base is in Ontario, while biochemistry develops around the Toronto urban circle. This place is Canada's economic center and talent concentration, and biochemistry has a very strong demand for talent.
Some companies with relatively strong biochemistry industry include Bayer, BASF German Chemicals, DuPont Canada and Unilever. The headquarters are distributed in Toronto.
Dow Chemical wanted to come in and share the cake, but these companies naturally boycotted it, so they couldn't get in the Toronto City Circle.
In addition to the Ontario and Toronto urban circles, Canada also has two regions, Montreal and Edmonton, which have very developed chemical industries.
Montreal engages in chemical industry because the city has a diversified and relatively cheap energy supply. It has established a comprehensive petrochemical industry cluster, with petroleum refineries and offshore ship tanker terminals, mainly engaged in the production of primary petrochemical products, olefins, aromatics and other items.
The chemical industry in Edmonton and surrounding areas mainly consists of four fields: petrochemicals, fertilizers, inorganic chemicals and fine and special chemicals.
There is no doubt that if Dow Chemical wants to make the idea of biochemistry, neither Montreal nor Edmonton can do it, and they cannot enter the Toronto urban circle. In this way, they can only extend the new production line.
The reason for the inability to enter is that the technology in biochemical industry is now immature and the evaluation system is imperfect, and cities are unwilling to access such production lines, including Ontario, the base of Dow Chemical Canada.
So, Dow took his mind to some remote areas and planned to play the strategy of surrounding the city in the countryside. In this case, he bid farewell to the island and entered their sight.
Hughes told the situation in a casual manner, and Qin Shiou also understood the relevant situation while drinking coffee.
After pondering for a moment, he asked, "Then why should we be anxious? The people in the town will not agree to someone who builds a chemical factory and let them do their work in vain. Why are you angry?"
Hughes sighed and said, "Now, these people plan to follow the money policy and build several communities in St. Johns to relocate the town. You know, the people in the town actually want to live in St. Johns."
Just like Ice and Fire Island, the farewell island has also encountered the crisis of the town cancellation, but because there are more people left behind here and the infrastructure is more complete, the catches of the surrounding fishing grounds are barely enough to make up for it. In addition, Hamre has the prestige, saying goodbye to the town can only stand tall for these years.
The reason why the farewell town has not been cancelled is that the St. Johns government has no money and cannot pay the relocation fee.
As Hughes knows, Dow Chemical has invested heavily this time to open a production line on the island. They are willing to pay high prices to build communities on land for the residents and relocate them.
In fact, if Qin Shiou had not opened up the economic development channel of tourism, the Dow would not have to send anyone to convince the residents of the town that as long as the residents' community is well built and the compensation is negotiated, the residents of the town would voluntarily leave the island.
As Robinson said, on such a small island, it is too inconvenient to travel and shop and treat diseases. This is an overly closed place. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!