Air Quality Monitoring Next for Possible Heavy Industrial Site

Friday, July 17, 2009 03:59 AM

Prince George, B.C.- The Regional District of Fraser Fort George will be putting out a bid to find a company that can put together baseline air quality information to go along with the industrial land profile.

The cost of the equipment is expensive, ( about $100 thousand) but it is hoped that equipment can be moved from one site to another after information has been gathered.

The first area to be studied will be the Hart North site.

Located about 30km north of Prince George between the Hart Highway 97 and the CN Rail line, this site was first identified 30 years ago in the China Steel Study as the most suitable site for Heavy Industry within the region. Since that time, it has been identified in local long term plans for Heavy Industrial uses.

The baseline information to be gathered will be PM10, PM2.5 SO2 and H2S.

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Posted on Friday, July 17, 2009 03:59 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Eagleone on July 17 2009 4:17 AM

Good news for PG's future IMO.

Posted by: He spoke on July 17 2009 8:35 AM

That is what we are looking for, a steel mill in Prince George. If we get a mill, guess what, we no longer have to have all the steel being shipped from back east to build anything, meaning we become a manufacturing city, instead of a resource and government city.

Posted by: Loki on July 17 2009 11:30 AM

"first identified 30 years ago in the China Steel Study as the most suitable site for Heavy Industry within the region"

30 years later there is no industry there, plenty in the bowl that keeps pollutants from traveling far from the source. Oh wait, we live in the bowl, dam. If only they had followed the recommendation and put industry out of the bowl.

ha ha, we won't get a steel mill. We will be lucky to keep the lumber mills.

So are they just going to measure that out of town location or will they also measure around the industrial areas?

Posted by: NMG on July 17 2009 11:34 AM

"If we get a mill, guess what, we no longer have to have all the steel being shipped from back east to build anything, meaning we become a manufacturing city, instead of a resource and government city"

And that is the problem. Instead of becoming an "X" city, a "Y" city or a "Z" city, we should strive to become a city that has "X", "Y" AND "Z". That is the whole point of diversification. We need to recognize that they ALL contribute instead of looking for just one of them to save the day.

Posted by: Maverick on July 17 2009 12:05 PM

And that is the problem. Instead of becoming an "X" city, a "Y" city or a "Z" city, we should strive to become a city that has "X", "Y" AND "Z". That is the whole point of diversification. We need to recognize that they ALL contribute instead of looking for just one of them to save the day.

Well Said, I agree!

Posted by: Loki on July 17 2009 2:09 PM

30 (thirty) years?

Posted by: Palopu on July 17 2009 4:00 PM

Most industry in the Bowl and the Pulp Mills etc; were located here closer to 45 years ago. There has been no new Industry in Prince George for the past 30 years.

There was some talk 30 years ago of locating a steel mill in the Hart Area, however it was trashed. Main reason was, that you would have to haul all the raw materials into Prince George including scrap metal, and then you would have to ship out all the finished product. In any event it never got off the ground. Much like the huge Slaughter House that was hyped for Vanderhoof area.

Posted by: gus on July 17 2009 9:46 PM

As Palopu said, we have the coal but not the iron ore for the mills that create new steel. Nor do we have scrap steel for reduction mills.

But then, very few mills in the world have both. But most are in large population centres.

Posted by: gamblor on July 18 2009 5:33 PM

Are you kidding me? Take a guess at what makes all the dirt and rock red around here. We live on the mother of all iron deposits.