Air Quality Co-Ordinator Hired

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 04:00 AM

Haze hanging over City during an air quality advisory, photo Opinion250 archive

Prince George, B.C. – The Co-ordinator for the Prince George Air Quality Implementation Plan has been hired.

Daniela Fisher, an environmental and business lawyer practicing in Vancouver, has been selected for the post.

“She is formerly from Prince George and she and her husband wanted to come back to be closer to family” says Air Quality Implementation Committee Chair Mellissa Winfield-Lesk.

Fisher is listed as working with the law firm of Edwards, Kenny and Bray LLP Environmental Practice Group. The company’s website says its focus is on “developing practical and sustainable solutions to challenging environmental issues.”

That experience is invaluable says Winfield-Lesk “Daniela has the regulatory background in that she knows the Provincial and Federal legislation and she can articulate the issues so everyone can see it isn’t just black and white.”

The costs for Daniela Fisher’s position are being shared. The City of Prince George is paying $30,000, the Ministry of the Environment $20,000 and industry is paying the balance of $50,000. That $100 thousand dollar budget includes her salary and all office overhead. “She was willing to take a pay cut to return to Prince George” says Winfield-Lesk.

It is hoped Fisher will start her new position in early July.

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Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 04:00 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: whitewater on May 6 2008 6:06 AM

Sounds like BS. 100 grand for a part time job.

Posted by: guinnessguy on May 6 2008 6:37 AM

Well...yet another expert hired...glad we have a cancer clinic in PG and Vanderhoof now...hope we can actually start DOING something about the pollution problems before we fill up those clinics. As for me, I`ve given notice in my downtown apartment and plan to move away soon...I can`t wait any longer. Welcome back to PG Daniela..I wish you luck and sincerely hope that you can get an action plan in place soon.

Posted by: robichal on May 6 2008 7:09 AM

Not entirely sure how this will help PG...isn't it partly geography that makes our AQ so awful...downtown is in the bowl and all the yucky crap just stays there...is she going to shut the Pulp Mills down...that's not very realistic. I honestly do not know what can be done, but I'm certainly no expert...

Posted by: giterdun on May 6 2008 7:22 AM

I hope the first thing that Daniela does is to shut down the BIOMESS project that the city is planning for the downtown bowl area. That in itself would be worth the hundred grand.

Posted by: Foo738 on May 6 2008 8:00 AM

Move the pulp mill. Doesn't take an expert to figure that one out.

Posted by: 80shovel on May 6 2008 8:15 AM

Looks like wood smoke from wood stoves an back yard weiner roasts to me...now just make that big fat cheque out to ....

Posted by: Denial on May 6 2008 8:22 AM

Move the pulp mill? Hilarious. They're already moving something... the city.

Where is it going? WEST.

Posted by: Foo738 on May 6 2008 12:19 PM

You are right Denial. Pity that. We are not capitalizing on our Two Rivers.

Posted by: He speaks on May 6 2008 1:57 PM

What smell, oh .............. that smell of money. Yep smells like a 100 grand.

Dear Diary, woke up today, smelled bad, wrote to city. "smell bad, please send check."

The city has a lot of gall to turn around and raise taxes after this kind of spending.