In the mean time if you buy a house in the Hart its all irrelevant this funny business of air quality studies and recreational fire bans... I bet I have the cleanest air in all of BC at my house.

Pick on the little guy first, forget the corporate poluters

The little guy has to do his part too - if he wants to have a solid argument against pollution from the *corporate* polluters.

As technology advances the big polluters will be legislated into obeying the new higher standards.

every suggestion point of the new bylaw has to do with intermittent small personal use. Granted that when added up it does amount to a significant volume.
When will this and other cities address the 24/7/365 bellowing tons per day industrial contributors?
There is legislation in place, but industry has cried loud enough that these are delayed.

Oh, why don't we shut down all the smokey operators and eat dog food.

If this shuts down, It should get rid of all the sawmills with in city limits. Does this mean that we will not produce anymore lumber. It may appear that way.

In reality, it will mean that Supermills will be built around the city. it will mean that instead of employing 200 workers, it will employ 50 workers to produce more. so in the long run, it will mean corporate canada will benefit, residence will benefit. and the out of work people will be looking for welfare benefits.... way to go clean air.

You want to see smoke pollution, drive south and check out the pellet plant early in the morning when there is a bit of an inversion going on. Wow, the whole valley is smoke.... This is the new pellet plant,,,, or the new ECO way of helping the planet buy utilizing wood waste.... Hmmmm, something has to be said about all that.

The city's clean air bylaw has nothing to do with heavy industry. It has a lot to do with the person next door burning yard waste, wood in the house, wood outside the house, etc. That burning next door to you can have a major impact on your "enjoyment" of "clean air". Much more than any pollution in town.

I have been the recipient of that in the past. The current neighbour no longer burns wood. The chimney for the wood furnace is 4 feet from my property line and 20 feet from my patio door. When there was a downdraft, and I walked out onto the deck the acrid smoke made it difficult to breathe. Like sitting on the smokey side of a camp fire without being able to move.

That is mainly what that bylaw is about.

so if this clean air bylaw is not intended for industry which many assume to be the primary contributor, then the politicos are just making a bunch of noise to make it appear that they are doing something when in reality they are doing nothing.

I am not suggesting that they close mills. Just that the technology is here and easily accessible, plus with the government's new billion dollar incentive program, there is no reason mills don't clean up their act.

"In reality, it will mean that Supermills will be built around the city. it will mean that instead of employing 200 workers, it will employ 50 workers to produce more"

If the only reason we have those 150 additional jobs is because industry refuses to modernize their operations, they (and those employees) are on deaths door anyway. Replacing the industry we have now with higher tech, and more environmentally friendly operations that have a longer useful life will do nothing but help our future as a city.

A cleaner city will also attract new investment, new business, more people, more taxes, etc. Let's quit clinging to the past and let's start moving forward. It's time to get going already. Heck, it's been time for at least 10 years.