ICBA Continues Push to Get Projects to Yes
Prince George, B.C. – The Chair of the Board, the President and Senior Vice President on hand, the ICBA held a meet and greet in Prince George last evening.
The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association opened an office in Prince George last November, and since that time, has been busy connecting with people throughout the north to join the call to have projects approved so workers can get to work.
Since arriving in Prince George, the ICBA has supported two major rallies, one in Terrace, another in Fort St. John, and pumped dollars into trades training at the College of New Caledonia. It’s part of their strategy to raise the voices of those who don’t agree with the people Board Chair Rick Boates describes as “those who say no to everything”. Boates says if anyone can develop resources responsibly, it is British Columbia.
Prince George- Mackenzie MLA Mike Morris was on hand and reminded the group BC is the economic powerhouse in Canada right now, and proposed projects can keep that momentum going. With Prince George the centre for highways, and having good rail access, he said resource development could see Prince George become a major industrial centre.
Prince George Mayor Lyn Hall echoed those comments, noting there is significant development happening in the City at the moment with the Riverbend Seniors complex and the major Inland Kenworth development underway. He hinted there is more good news on the horizon.
Comments
It’s great to know that there’s an advocate for environmentally responsible and sustainable job creation in this province, especially in the resource-rich north. The vocal small minority shouting ‘NO’ to every imaginable type of industrial development north of the 49th parallel and east of the Pacific Ocean needs to hear from the silent majority of this province.
Sustainable extractivism is an oxymoron . Once you’ve finished extracting everything for export all you have left is a hollowed out ecology and a collapsed economy . The island of Nauru is a perfect example of this kind of logic/false logic .
That’s absolutely ridiculous. Nauru is 21 square kilometres in size and has a population less than 10,000 people. Canada is 10 million square kilometres in size and has a population of over 35 million people.
Absolutely everything that every human being on this planet uses (energy, food, textiles, metals, water, windmills, toothbrushes, shopping carts, breast implants, hearing aids, tongue depressors, Iphones, wife-beater T-shirts, etc., etc., etc.) is either grown or mined. Those are your two choices, period.
You missed the point of the article and the Nauru island nation analogy . Both are about extractivism and nothing to do with value added products . Nice rant though , even if it was pointless .
Ataloss, are you suggesting that we STOP mining and extracting the materials that are used to manufacture solar panels, wind mills and batteries?
Hurry up and get on that, ok!
No I am not . I just don’t agree with calling extratavism , sustainable because it’s not . Once whatever is extracted is gone , it’s gone for ever . And those wonderful railroad and truck driving jobs aren’t going to be there for long . Did you see the latest driverless truck convoy snaking its way across the states with several different makes and models ? Most of the rail locomotives being manufactured today are mostly automated . How long before the engineman is redundant ? Not very long . The troubles with our economy can only be solved by our leadership ending this election cycle thinking .
What in the world does a ridiculous rant about extratavism (sic) have to do with workers being replaced by technology? That’s a different Luddite rant.
‘Hey Jeb, I hear that wooden wagons wheels are going to be replaced in the near future with metals ones and there’s even some weird new technology coming called a ‘tire’. It’s made out of some new-fangled material called ‘rubber’, whatever that is. We better get ourselves down to the Town Crier’s office and spread they news that the elites of this valley want to take away our jobs manufacturing wooden wagon wheels. I’ve even heard that something called a ‘machine’ can produce more than one ‘tire’ in a single shift, displacing dozens of hard-working wooden wagon wheel makers. It’s outrageous.’
Prince George become a major industrial center?? I thought it already was.
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