PG Fire Rescue says No Danger From Spill

Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:49 PM

Prince George, B.C. - Prince George Fire Rescue officials have been going door-to-door along PG Pulp Mill Road to advise residents of the chlorine dioxide spill between the Intercon and PG Pulp Mills.

Deputy Chief John Lane says fire crews and Ministry of Environment officials have determined that the spill poses no danger to any of the residents in the PG Pulp Mill Road area. Lane says the spill site is several kilometres away from any homes. Workers within 500 metres of the site have been moved away and neighbouring industrial plants in the area have been notified.

Fire Rescue says the spill has been contained between the railway tracks and is not spreading. A strong wind from the South is dissipating any chlorine vapors north to an area of vacant land. Emergency officials says the spill is 1 kilometre away from the Fraser River and there is no immediate danger of leakage into the river.

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Posted on Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:49 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: Chester on February 1 2009 4:52 PM

So, where did the spill originate from? A rail tank car? Or??? A derailment? An accident?

Posted by: tinyapplecork on February 1 2009 5:41 PM

Sounded like a line from the previous article, but wasn't clear was it? I am concerned about the groundwater...

Posted by: lifesucks on February 1 2009 6:51 PM

It was a break in the pipe line between the rail tracks. Fire and rescue came around handing out a paper stating what happened. No immediate danger to the Fraser River. It happened around 3:30 a.m. and rescue was not notified until about 7:30 this morning. Canfor let P.E.P. know and they contacted the fire and rescue.

Posted by: BC Mary on February 3 2009 5:25 PM

This story makes me wonder even more, about the Mackenzie pulpmill situation.

They say there are containers of chlorine dioxide in that mill which are an eminent danger of spilling or exploding ... and that the government is "forced" to take over the management (and costs) to protect the town.

Do you believe that?

My question to Prince George's experienced pulpmill people is: do you believe that the on-site employees -- if they were being paid for their work -- couldn't have managed the situation?

Why did the government feel that there's nobody around who knows how to cope with the chlorine dioxide stored in the idle Mackenzie mill? I can't understand that.

Another question: is the train still running to Mackenzie? I understand that the Mackenzie pulpmill lost its fibre contracts which must mean that the old BCRail line (now CN, if running at all) would have nothing much to haul into Mackenzie ... and no pulp to haul out either. So is that line abandoned?

Because there's a clause or two in the Revitalization Agreement with CN in which the Campbell government promises to "sell" rail lines to CN for, I think, $1., once a line is abandoned.

There are several awesome clauses like this which kick in at the 5-year anniversary of that mostly-secret agreement -- July 12, 2009.

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