Graymont Giscome Limestone Project Up for Rezoning and Community Plan Change
Graymont project areas-image courtesy Graymont
Prince George, B.C. – The proposed Graymont limestone quarry and processing plant project is on the rezoning track with the Regional District of Fraser Fort George.
The property in question in Giscome would require a revision to the community plan, approval from the Agriculture Land Reserve and a rezoning to heavy industrial.
The Regional District has given the first reading to the necessary bylaw changes to allow the process to move to the public consultation phase before any final decisions are made on the proposed changes
But even if those changes are approved, there is no assurance the project will be given approval as it has yet to clear the environmental assessment process and has not yet been issued a permit for the quarry mine.
The proposed limestone quarry and lime processing plant would create 40- 60 jobs during construction, and 20 permanent direct jobs when the quarry and plants are operational. Graymont says there is enough limestone to keep the quarry operational for 50 years.
Phase one of the project would cost between $80 and $90 million dollars.
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Lets hope it goes forward. 20 jobs is a good thing in this economy
Would be interesting to hear what impact the **dust** from this quarry would have on Eaglet Lake, and the surrounding area, not the least of which is the school, and the residents living in the area.
Well, whatever impact, at least it’s not ‘explosive’.
Can’t wait to see what excuses the environmentalists use on this one seeing as they love to see no job creation or money in the local economy
Instead of rolling out the red tape, lets try the red carpet for a change.
If you ever saw the Graymont mine at Pavilion BC you would know what I mean when I refer to **dust**.
They had a rock crushing quarry, with blasting at 2 pm everyday. With the exceptions a few goats going missing it didn’t seem to bother the residents of the area, of which I was one for a few years. The proposed lime quarry is just an extension of one that was run there in the 90s and apart from disturbing my hunting grounds at the time, it didn’t have a negative impact on the environment that I could see. CN also had a quarry there for years that didn’t seem to adversely affect anyone there.
And lets face it, with the years that the sawmill was right on the banks of Eaglet lake, the lake hasn’t exactly been a fishing hotspot for anyone other than the odd lost tourist.
Actually the sawmill stored their logs in Eagle Lake for years, and as a result basically killed the lake. It has only recently started to bounce back.
Furthermore the rock crushing quarry was to get aggregate and ballast for the railway tracks. The limestone plant being proposed is an entirely different type of project. You cannot compare the two.
I was out there in the 70’s and they would be blasting at around 3 pm every 2nd day.
I’m sure Neil Young would like to make sure it don’t get built.
This reminds me… I need to resurface my driveway. lol.
Giscome green. You don’t want an impervious driveway in Prince George anymore.
If they are going to be producing lime or “quick lime” in the factory, environmental protection standards and systems had better be in tip top shape.
Quick lime is extremely caustic stuff, it will kill any life it comes into contact with.
Should be no environmental concerns with limestone. Its actually used to purify contaminated water tables, so how could it possibly be considered harmful to the environment. The area if full of potential limestone sites other than what Graymount is looking at. KODE had a huge mine site for limestone used at the pulp mill in Mackenzie for years about 40km away up the Beaver Forest Service Road… its all over in the area.
Full speed ahead IMO. Great project for the area… maybe just the beginning of something great to sustain those communities.
“Particular care should be exercised with quicklime because its reaction with moisture generates heat capable of causing thermal burns.”
Here is the Worker Safety Fact Sheet for Quick Lime linked to here:
[url]http://www.lime.org/documents/lime_basics/fact-safety_precautions.pdf[url]
They use to throw lime on dead bodies and animal carcasses because it disintegrates, or breaks down the carcasses more rapidly and thoroughly. Like I said it is pretty caustic stuff.
Quicklime is produced by heating a sedimentary rock called limestone. This is done at limestone’s decomposition temperature and the resultant product is then mixed with water. This process requires a large amount of heat of up to 898 degrees Celsius.
So do you think they are going to heat it up anywhere near the quarry? Give your head a shake. It was KODE that had the original limestone quarry just up above Giscome 15 or so years ago. No one got contaminated because of it.
Not talking about contamination at the quarry site, I am taking about possible environmental contamination at the factory site, where they will be using first one kiln and then in phase 2 , two kilns to produce the pure lime / quick lime.
Here this might help you a bit, it did me.
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