PACHA Announces Clean Air Award Nominees

Monday, January 28, 2008 07:00 AM

Prince George, B.C. - The People's Action Committee for Healthy Air (PACHA) has released the list of nominees for its first-ever 'Prince George Clean Air Awards'.

The nomination deadline was January 15th and the following names were put forward in each of the respective categories:

Individuals

David Sutherland
Kathleen Haines and Geraldine Burbee of the North Nechako Residents' Association
Jo Graber
Dr. Laurie Cook
Dr. Peter Jackson, UNBC
George Kennedy, CNC

Media

Gordon Hoekstra, Prince George Citizen
Cheryl Jahn, CKPG news
Ben Meisner, Opinion 250
Arthur Williams, Prince George Free Press

Government/ Politician

Brian McBride, British Columbia Ministry of Environment
Maureen Bilawchuk, British Columbia Ministry of Environment
Bob Radloff & Scott Bone, City of Prince George
Mark Fercho, City of Prince George
Brian Skakun, Prince George City Council
Deborah Munoz, Prince George City Council
Mellissa Lesk-Winfield, Prince George Implementation Committee
Sean Sharpe, British Columbia Ministry of Environmental
Peter Jackson, Mayor's Task Force on Clean Air

Business

John Cunningham, Columbia Bitulithic
Husky Oil Refinery
John Swaan
Railpower Hybrid Green Goat Locomotives

The winners will be announced midday at the PACHA Better Air Symposium on Saturday at the Coast Inn of the North. The event runs from 9am until 4pm.

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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 07:00 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on January 28 2008 7:58 AM

Hey, no raspberry awards? Sniff..

Posted by: opinionated on January 28 2008 8:17 AM

What a joke.

Posted by: Runner46 on January 28 2008 8:31 AM

they certainly have all the bases covered....

Posted by: opion1 on January 28 2008 8:43 AM

what exactly did these people do...turn there cars off while they sat in line at Tim Hortons?

Posted by: owl on January 28 2008 9:23 AM

I wonder who the nominees were and what the criteria were. There appear to be people on there who are working at the opposite ends of the pollution spectrum.

Whatever happend with culling the list a bit first? Time to raise the bar, folks. No wonder we are in so much trouble with air quality in this city!!!!

Posted by: owl on January 28 2008 9:45 AM

Since I was not familiar with Green Goat I had to go to the web site ot find out waht kind of a product it is:

It says:"The patented Green Goat� design, compared to standard diesel switchers - diesel electric and diesel hydraulic is cheaper to purchase, cheaper to run, cheaper to maintain, and produces considerably less pollutants."

I mean, if this is true, does it get any better?

Quebec, eh? .... Them and Bombardier all in the same "have-not" province? Good for them!! So I am assuming CN is using one in the yard .... or how many? ... and why would CN not get an award then? There are tons of Canadian manufacturers of "green" products that keep the air clean.

So, that is a no-brainer for the industry part. Without them in there, the award should have been scrapped for this year in that category.

My vote is for Kathleen Haines in the first group, Gordon Hoekstra in the second. Those are no-brainers.

The third one I would maybe just squeak Mark Fercho by over the bar I have set for my selection.

The thing is, with the things being so bad here, there is not much to work with.

I think they should give an award to the citizens of PG who are acting as guinea pigs .....

;-)

Posted by: owl on January 28 2008 9:46 AM

Actually I meant "nominators" in the first post I made.

:-(

Posted by: Bridge on January 28 2008 10:01 AM

Any information that I have recieved from Mark Fercho sounded more like from a spin doctor which he is good at. He dosent get my vote.

The way he worked the removal of pine from city parks was a disaster.

Cheers

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on January 28 2008 11:32 AM

I thought you might vote for yourself...

Posted by: Harbinger on January 28 2008 11:47 AM

Will this award thingy be on any of them "Entertainment" shows on TV I seen? Red carpet at city hall at -30c? Maybe Ben Mulroney could hand out the awards. That would be cool.

Posted by: Palopu on January 28 2008 11:55 AM

Owl. Railpower (P)on TSX is located in Vancouver and makes these **green goat locomotives**

As far as I know a number of them have been sold to the Union Pacific Railway, and possibly the Burlington Northern, in the USA, however havent heard that CN Rail or BC Rail have purchased any yet.

Posted by: iwundery on January 28 2008 12:56 PM

Given that we have the honour of being handed an F Grade for air quality I think this initiative is a good effort to recognize those few who may be starting to take a leadership role. [http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/01/28/heart-stroke-report-card.html]

I will be interested in seeing why some names have made it to the list since I follow this stuff closely and am at a loss - do we get awards for doing our job? Hopefully this positive approach from PACHA will be a good beginning to seeing others want to take the glory!

Posted by: owl on January 28 2008 2:10 PM

Palopu .... so then I wonder why they would allow them to be nominated? very strange ....

Posted by: owl on January 28 2008 2:12 PM

Bridge, you could be right .... I was thinking in the case of the Asphalt plant situation. Kathleen Haines would be better to determine whether he was helpful or not.

Posted by: Arthur Williams on January 28 2008 4:26 PM

Good luck, Ben. But I think Gord has this one in the bag. See you at the awards luncheon.

Posted by: northman on January 28 2008 7:02 PM

'Prince George Clean Air Awards'? The joke and the punch-line in the same sentence!

Posted by: opinionated on January 28 2008 8:13 PM

Jo Graber has been very vocal on this issue for as long as I can remember. I am puzzled by how they did come up with that list.

Posted by: opinionated on January 28 2008 8:24 PM

Jo Graber has been very vocal on this issue for as long as I can remember. I am puzzled by how they did come up with that list.