30 years you say?
What is your complaint?
The ongoing problem, or the lack of a solution?
The city Hall at Prince George is not recognized as a "problem solver" for its residents.
They are interested only in borrowing money, paying for losing money assets, and planning trips abroad, or at least out of the country for a chosen few.
Cannot be too serious, if they managed to survive it 30 years.
And they stayed?
Go figure?

30 YEARS! Sounds like the gravel pit was there first. Get a house in an area that has a better history. Must be a chicken farm some where that needs a neighbour.

Hey, but at my house the wind sometimes blows too hard and it sometimes rains too much. This is a problem that started when I built my house 25 years ago. Can we talk about a solution ?

"Transportation Manager Frank Blues has good news on the transit system’s performance, and the arrival of new equipment."

Hopefully the "new equipment" is the machinery needed to finally start the long overdue repair of the Cameron Street Bridge?

(at a cost of $750,000 dollars).

If one ignores the wishes of the citizens long enough they may eventually throw in the towel and keep all the good advice to themselves, i.e. stop being a pain in the neck to those who always know better.

I think that society has a major problem when people start to build residences next to industry, or build residences in a bowl when industry is obviously using the bowl.

I mean, it is no different than people building in earthquake prone areas, or "tornado alleys", or hurricane prone areas, or flood plains. Clearly anyone living in the valley has their head screwed on the wrong way. Time to move to Salmon Valley so that the residential areas do not encroach on industrial properies.

;-)

Society also has a problem when people don't care about their neighbours. We're all in it together. That's for you PolCat or are you just a jokster?

I wish them well. Council will hem and haw for awhile and, they will kick a few pebbles about and then it will be winter and the problem will be solved.

No Poo738, I'm for real. Ritchie Bros has had similar problems in the past. Residential areas start expanding and move in close and then start bitching about the sandblasting, traffic, noise etc.
ALR's on the other hand keep most snots at a distance, residential can't move in and the farms can do their thing, (stink, noise, spray etc) but industry doesn't have the same protection. The snots move in and start pushing.
No. I'm for real - are you FooPoo?

Who is the new owner? manager of that gravel pit?
Does he carry some weight at city hall?
Since the previous owner died has the removal of gravel increased in that area. Is the crushing equipment working?
The "crying towel" never bothered city hall before-and it will not need wringing out now in their opinion.
Mop up your tears, Nechako residents, and eventually you might learn to "live with it!"
If the city has only been required to listen to you every few years-they have had no problem "living with it."
How many lessons in futility does it take before you give it a rest?

It is industries that have been encroaching on residential areas. Homes were in the bowl before the pulp mills, oil refinery, asphalt plants. As for the problem in the North Nechako area the homes along Bench Drive were built before the first asphalt plant.

The problem is that there is no place to go in this City without running into air or noise pollution.

I do not know why people get caught up in the argument of "I was here first" or "I have been doing this for 40 years".

Things change. New information is added. Better ways are found to do things. Businesses operating today operate in a completely different environment than 50 years ago, 100 years ago People demand better lifestyles than those living 100 years ago and we have the technology and more or less know how to give it to them.

I understand from a statement made by Dan Milburn in the news that industry was actually there shortly before some of the first houses were. For those who say that the residents should know better, I would have to say that industry should also have known better. When industry saw a proposed residential areas so close to their operation, they should have come to the regional board and spoken against it since they knew that they would impact the residentisal areas.

Well, they probably did not know. As I said, things change. As a result, normal people do not draw lines in the sand. Instead, they work with each other and deal with the issues rather than like the bratty little kid saying "I was here first".

Nevertheless, the Nechako group has an uphill battle for some other reasons than "I was here first".