In Prince George, those working in the forestry sector are not happy with the liberals doing nothing about people losing jobs. The Education sector are not happy with the liberals for doing nothing about toxic work environment and discrimination in places like UNBC that have created unnecessary instability and stagnation and contributed to resignations.

The former will affect Bell's votes greatly and the latter will affect Bond's votes. The general public are also not happy with growing gang violance and crime and toxic weather and quality of life in PG.

Bell and Bond - B/B company - have less than 2 weeks to correct these perceptions of the voters, if they want to be re-elected. They need to meet those affected and resolve their grievances quickly by using their contacts to officials in CANFOR and UNBC instead of hiding their head in the sand and pretend that everything is fine in town and they are busy with other **more important** stuff.

Their main busy-ness should be using the power given to them by voters to resolve the problems in this city. They had four years to do the job and there is a growing
pile of garbage of problems accumulated.

B/B company need to do something about this mountain of garbage and move fast before the approaching deadline. It is now time for reckoning.

Call election time, the garbage collection time.

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Did anyone note the article in the PG Citizen last Friday that stated that the new bioenergy plant at the BCR site doesn't have an MoE permit yet ? The proponents are going ahead because they are 'confident' in their new technology. The announcement of this plant was used as an election backdrop for Bond and Bell. Really, I was uncertain the way I was going to vote but I believe this has tipped the scales away from the Liberals. We are living in a zero net gain airshed folks. http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20090424188395/local/news/bioenergy-plant-starting-without-air-permit.html

Turtle I noticed that too. The provincial government should be the one in the lead cleaning up PG's air shed... our MLA's should be the advocates making that happen. How they could support more potential pollution right across the river from College Heights at election time without an environmental assessment of its impact to the airshed is beyond my comprehension. IMO this is a direct result of the city and our provincial representatives refusing to make land available for a major industrial site outside of the city air shed. I expect the city will continue to concentrate heavy industrial emitters in the bowl centered around the downtown for tax collection purposes. The ndp response to this was just as clueless IMO.

Cleaning up PG's air needs money and it is in conflict with the business sector making profit and hence cannot be expected from Campbell government.

Bond and the BC liberals did not move a finger to clean the "work environment" in UNBC at no cost - ZERO - for the past 6 years, why one should expect them to spend millions and clean up the "air environment" in PG?

It is time to approach the pollution problem in BC air/work environment *top down* and clean up the toxic BC government first and bring into power another cleaner party, not in the pocket of air/work environment polluters and hope that they will do something soon about air pollution and breakdown of law and order in BC and BC work environment.

8 years of disregard for law and order is more than enough. Please, this time, don't let convicted drunk drivers and sleazy politicians in charge of driving our lives in BC. Vote for those with respect for law.

How much air quality enforcement is Federal jurisdiction? How much authority does our Municipality and Province have to enforce changes? Maybe this is why we can't move ahead.

Air quality is not a Federal matter. They do collect data for total pollution release based on reporting from companies.

It is primarily provincial. I say it is primarily provincial in that the City can zone based on industry type and air emissions can be one of those factors.

The other thing is that the City can lobby. If the City wants the air quality to be dealt with then they have to be actively pursuing it. The Province will listen and do something about it only if the City keeps pushing. If not, the province does not see a squeaky wheel here so it will take its time.

I agree that the City probably likes to have these polluters located in the City so that they can collect the tax dollars. They also have the audacity to want to locate a Co-Generation plant in the bowl to heat buildings, and also support building one at the University. Doesnt seem to me that they care much about air quality. Money seems to be the name of the game.

The Liberals had lots of opportunities to make significant changes to a number of issues, and chose to do nothing. They were betting that the voters in BC and more specfically those in the Interior would be to stupid to catch on. Now that they realize they are in trouble, they are running around making all kinds of promises to buy votes. We are supposed to foreget about Alcan, BC Rail, Carbon Tax, Fish Farms, Olympics, Increase in Ferry Costs, Increased gambling, Major increases in crime, and gang related killings, police tazering, and police shootings, etc; etc; etc;.

I have no intention of forgetting any of the above, and it will be a frosty day in hell before I give these guys anymore support.

Have a nice day.