How come they keep getting dollars, but the air doesn't get any better???
And why would the government hand out more dollars when there is going to be a waste wood fired generating plant in downtown PG?
Hello?

Unbelievable! Why has this committee not actively and vociferously opposed the new fine particulates emitting *Bio* energy wood burning plant for the Prince George downtown ?

30 recommendations? Let's hope that recommendation Number One is to scuttle and scrap this boondoggle idea of a bio-energy plant?

Actually they get very few dollars from the province. For an airshed with the type of problems we have they should have better monitors. There are only two PM2.5 monitors in town, the Plaza and Gladstone. BCR does not have a PM2.5 monitor or any kind of VOC monitor.

In addition, there is no mobile monitor. This may in fact be for a mobile monitor. With a mobile monitor one can get some figures for local areas such as Peden hill for instance which should have a considerable level of PM2.5 coming from the diesel trucks as they gear up to go uphill and affecting the residents on the crest of the adjacent banks.

In addtion, such monitors could be used to get ambient background for areas that may be affected by a new facility with air emissions. Put on in at the Millar subdivision near Patricia and Quensway for instance to monitor existing levels there. Then there is a baseline.

That was one of the problems with the new Pellet plant in the BCR. There are absolutely no baseline numbers for the workers in that area and what they get exposed to. All we know is that the new plant has increased the exposure. To what level, no one knows.

Sort of like saying that a new waste water dump into a lake will only increase the coliform count by such and such an amount which is too small to affect the health of the average person. What we do not know is what the existing count is and that the additional amount will put it over the acceptable limit a significant number of days a year.

The group here is underfunded by a considerable amount. Sort of like living in a third world country.

This is great..we finance a program to recommend improving air, then we build a bio system to polute the air. What kind of idiots are driving this bus. Stop I want to get off.

Another plan and people are dieing from the poor air quality in the City. Its all smoke and mirrors.

If we were serious about air quality its time to stop planning. Planning accomplishes nothing. No mater how much money we throw at it. WE KNOW who the poluters are so what is there to study.

Its time that Jimmy Pattison used some of the profits to clean up our air quality. But instead he just buys more shares and the hell with the air quality. Its time we told Jimmy Pattison your killing us. We need legislation to stop the poluters and quit the study crap.

Cheers.

Bridge, what are you talking about? If you have an axe to grind with Jimmy Pattison, lay it out for all of us to see. Chester

Come on Chester,you know full well Bridge is talking about the mills that are pretty much located right downtown.
And Pattison is a BIG shareholder and a well known name, so he gets the heat I guess.
Tough.
Profits for shareholders should never be a priority over clean air!
Last time I looked, this was not a third world country,so why do people have to breath this crap?
The technology is there to fix it but it takes money, which the mills have.
And a clean air act with some teeth in it, which we don't have.