PACHA Announces 'Clean Air Award' Winners

Saturday, February 02, 2008 07:44 PM

Attendees at the 'Better Air' Symposium hosted by PACHA take in the displays

Prince George, B.C. - The People's Action Committee for Healthy Air (PACHA) is out with its first annual Clean Air Awards...

The winners were announced during the group's full day symposium at the Coast Inn of the North.

The categories and winners are as follows:

Individuals

Kathleen Haines and Geraldine Burbee of the North Nechako Residents' Association

Media

Cheryl Jahn, CKPG News

Government

Dr. Peter Jackson, Mayor's Task Force on Clean Air

Politician

Brian Skakun, Prince George City Council

Business

John Cunningham, Columbia Bitulithic

For a complete list of the nominees, click here.

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Posted on Saturday, February 02, 2008 07:44 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: owl on February 2 2008 8:37 PM

Interesting ....

Will we get to know why they were selected? Was it a popularity contest or was there a panel who selected them based on some type of criteria?

The reason for selecting the two gals from the North Nechako is fairly self explanatory for those who have been following the activities here in 2007.

The rest I really have to wonder what it is exactly that they did that goes above and beyond the call of their normal duty.

Posted by: owl on February 2 2008 8:41 PM

BTW ... the air quality downtown was cooperative .... 41 for 24 hour average and rising at 7pm ... that means the hourly actual during the day would have likely been over 50 ....

:-(

Posted by: opinionated on February 2 2008 8:52 PM

Cheryl Jahn, you have got to be kidding. Hoekstra has been writting about clean air for weeks.Awards were given out why?

Posted by: Raparee on February 2 2008 10:19 PM

Criteria
1. Nominations may be received from anyone residing within the Prince George Airshed
2. Eligible nominations will be for clean air deeds that meet any of the following
objectives:
- Contributed to the improvement of air quality in Prince George
-Contributed to the education of the community in an effort to improve Air Quality
-Worked to raise the profile of Air quality as an issue in our community
-Taken action to improve air quality that has resulted in tangible results
- Shown leadership and innovation in the area of Air Quality

http://www.pachapg.ca/news/_docs/Pacha%20clean%20air%20awards%20criteria.pdf

Posted by: trueblue2 on February 2 2008 10:36 PM

ditto on the comment re the media award

absolutely unbelievable that hoekstra's work was not recognized...

this one award makes this whole thing look like a complete sham

Posted by: tinyapplecork on February 3 2008 12:24 AM

I must agree with the other posts. I spoke to one of the nominees after their name was announced on this list. They had no idea they were nominated. Didn't know about award nor date of award announcement when I congratulated them on their nomination. You would think that lots of attention would be in order for something as significant as air quality from the group wanting it front and center. Oops, guess this group dropped the ball as well.

Posted by: owl on February 3 2008 8:55 PM

Based on the criteria which Raparee identified, which are quite reasonable criteria, I wonder what anyone has done that goes beyond what Gordon has done.

Maybe the stuff he writes is too difficult for people to comprehend.

Posted by: Harbinger on February 4 2008 12:20 PM

Brian Skakun clean air award? Probably for vetoing a polluting drive thru escort agency, maybe.