Isle Pierre being with the group that has the best potential for heavy industry is a surprise to me. Less than 10 years ago it was considered to have the least potential from a size and environmental sensitivity point of view. Wonder what changed.

Clear Lake is a no brainer as is the Hart. The former will require some rail to be placed, but ties in nicely with a rational location of a southern connection from HWY16 to HWY97 and the new scale location.

Both should be good locations from a City air quality point of view.

gus,

With regards to Clear Lake, I would have to suggest the infrastructure is very bad.

As you mentioned there is no rail access, then add to that approx 23 km of narrow winding road which is already overused with chip and logging trucks. There are very poor sight lines, corners with zero to negative banking, and no sholders to speak of and subject to fog much of the year.

Anybody who uses that road regularly know how dangerous it is, commercial and private vehicles.

The access to Isle Pierre mill site is not much better, with long steep hills and poor sight lines.

For either area to get any new development some big dollars would need to be spent on access.

I find it interesting that the report talks of steep grade and poor access, have these people looked at the other sites?

Frankly the Hart and Willow Cale have the best access.

"I find it interesting that the report talks of steep grade and poor access,"

By this I meant the Stoner site.

I do have to admit, Stoner would be a great location for grow ops, atleast by name.

The Hart location is a complete no brainer. It has all the infrastructure already in place. Its entirely out of the city air-shed.

Isle Pierre however they must be on drugs. The wind always blows from Isle Pierre down the Nechako into the PG bowl. Also Isle Pierre has huge issues with its road access being far to step and almost inaccessible during bad snow storms. The costs associated with its location could only be mitigated by subsidizing the ability to pollute the air shed and thus the site is entirely inappropriate. West of town for industrial development would be counter productive IMO.

Well now you have some industrial site areas. The next thing you need is some industry.

Wonder what that would be?

Anyone have any suggestions?

Stompin Tom .... the road you are taling about is the existing Blackwater. That would not be the access to that site.

The proposed access would connect HWY16 West to HWY97 South just north of the new weigh scale. The Fraser had a narrowing in that region, with an island. It would be the southern bypass for PG that would allow for products from the West to be transported south without having to pass through the city.

The Sintich Road proposed bridge would be one that would then have to be built by the City at some time when it is needed for intra City transportation.

This is an industrial area for the future, not for now. It has to last the same length of time the BCR has lasted, some 60 years +. Eventually the BCR will end up being used for something else ... perhaps a golf course with residential development associated with it, who knows. It would be nice to have a low lying course next to the river for another month or two of golfing.

BTW, I do not golf and by the time it gets built most if not all of those posting on here will be pushing up the flowers on that course. I continue to get reminded of a legacy for those who will follow us.

Will pulp mills disappear from sight? If not, will the existing ones be rebuilt in the next 10 or so years? If so, where should they be built? I believe water is no longer a requirement.

Atuomobile parts plant? Airplane parts plant? Pharmaceutical plant? Wood products plant developed from the Wood tech centre to be?

You name it, cheap land, cheap living, well educated labour force, access to rail, air, road.

Gus. You just discribed China and South East Asia, especially the well educated (cheap) labour force. There is no cheap union labour in BC.

Any new pulp mills built in BC would probably be in the Stewart BC area on tidewater. Prince George could very well end up with one **super pulp mill** .

The other possibilities you mentioned have been built in other areas of the world years ago, and these plants would just be expanded to meet increase demand. China is the big market for Automobiles in the next decade, however they will be built in China, and the parts will be made in China.

If you had 500 possible areas to establish a huge manufacturing plant in the world, I suspect that Prince George wuld be 499 on the list.

People seem to forget that a huge portion of the manufacturing business in North American moved to China and South East Asia in the past 20 years. That is the trend. Building new competitive manufacturing industry in North America is highly unlikely.