Just say no to asphalt.

Or is it NIMBY?

How about a plant to make plastic bags?

I was in the industry. The waste oil they use for burner fuel has more than just waste oil in it. Very toxic stuff, trust me.

Is this asphalt planned to be used for the airport expansion?

There has been lots of truck traffic related to that project that the residents could not do a thing about. May be putting the boots to the asphalt plant is just about revenge?

If this was really a health issue, WCB would not let anyone work at an asphalt plant. No one puts anything over WCB.

I used to collect waste oil from all kinds of shops, mills, construction sites, and Natural gas plants all over northern BC.
Trust me when I say this waste oil they use for burner fuel, is not just waste oil. Anything you can imagine is dumped into these waste oil tanks , you know the one out in the back alley behind all those shops etc. WCB has never checked what I collected or delivered to any asphalt plant throughout northern BC. Solvents, chemicals, paints, ammonia, you name it, it gets delivered to asphalt plants and it's burned as burner fuel. I once picked up a 45 gallon drum of the dye thats used to mark purple gas, up in smoke.
Trust me WCB doesn't know anything.

Nor does the ministry of environment or anyone thats not connected with the burner fuel supply industry.

I also forgot to mention ethylene glycol or engine antifreeze goes through the burners as well however the plants don't like it cause it lowers the BTU's of the burner fuel.

So this is your fault lostfaith? One call to WCB and all these problems would have disppeared years ago. Were you an owner?

I don't understand people that smoke or risk their health like that. Call WCB if you see a problem, that's what they are there for.

The levels of so called toxic pollutants allowed by WCB are considerably different and higher than those allowed for the general public for several reasons.

1. workers can wear personal protective equipment and often have to under WCB regulation. (BTW, I doubt anyone has ever driven by an asphalt paving machine, you know the ones that burn the pavement, remove the top layer when it is softened, and recycle it to the back of the machinery to repave, and seen workers who are breathing that blue smoke in all day, wear any kind of filtered breathing masks.)

2. workers are generally exposed for 40 hours or so per week thus get less total exposure - nice to know they think that way, eh?

3. workers are able bodied and healthier than the general population - nice to know, eh ..... get the able bodied and healthier people and make them unhealthy ... :-)

4. the general population includes the very young .... babies and kids .. as well as the elderly, all of whom are considered to to be the more vulnerable ones in our society and they can be exposed up to 24 x 7 = 168 hours per week.

In the case of the worker, WCB is involved. In the case of the general population, the MoE is involved. In the case of asphalt plants, the city is also involved and may even have more teeth, through zoning and land use restrictions, about such things than the MoE.

from a bigger and wiser city ... ;-)
http://www.calgarycleanair.com/healthissues.html

yama
workers normally put way to much trust in their bosses and believe they are all knowing therefore they don't believe that they would hurt them or put them in harms way so reports don't go to worksafe until it's long after the fact and usually to late for some ie; black lung, asbestos just to name a couple
owl
your partly right it does depends on your length of exposure and if it's direct or indirect
like the difference of splashing diesel on you hands when you fill your truck or not having hand cleaner and using it to wash the grease & oils off your hands every day like we were taught it was ok years ago & now after 30 or 40 years later mechanics are developing skin cancer like crazy and that's another example yama

"temporary" the asphalt plants across from North Nechako were only "temporary". Each year people complained and the city said don't worry they are only "temporary". Then one year - "we can't get them to move as we grandfathered them in".