What a lovely view of the pulp mill.....gasp!!!!!!

Yah, sadly it kind of ruins the view...but I think this is an especially bad picture, the mills don't seem quite so prominent when you see them from the U in real life...other than that this picture is really nice w/ the rainbow :)

should trim some of the trees that are growing in front of the pavilion. Then it would be even a better view of beautiful Prince George (at least how I see Prince George).

If were not for the mills, you whiners, PG would not be what it is today. The three local pulpmills continue to spend millions of dollars every year, right here in good old Prince George.
Love it or leave it.
metalman.

Yeah way to go Metalman. All these tree hugging, fish kissing whiners have no idea where our real economy comes from.

They probably work for the government, with no idea of how the real world works.

Good view of the economic base of the city. I'll bet Mackenzie wishes they still had a view like this.

Regardless of how vital the mills are to the PG economy, or how important they were in the development of the town, they're still ugly as sin.

metalman & he speaks - Canfor does nothing for this city except employ local people. Canfor may have had an impact on the growth, but lets not forget all the local people / business' that made Canfor such a company only to have Canfor stab them in the back.

Canfor's roots may be in the community, but the money goes south

This city does not need Canfor, they are more a problem than they are worth!!!

The mills may be ugly and in a bad spot,but they are the reason PG is what it is.
They provide a serious income to a lot of people, and the trickledown effect from these mills is huge.
There is no point to bashing them.
Monitor them and insist on high quality enviromental standards at all times.
They are here to stay...at least for right now,and if they were gone,it would be a whole new ball game!
For Prince George,that would be a scary thing to deal with that would NOT be good!

"At least for now"

..... now there IS the rub, to quote Shakespeare ...

Take your clue from which part of the city the partial rainbow is visible .... the DOWNTOWN ... not the mills ....

GOD does know, that is why the structure has been built, to allow Her to tune into this City and give us signs!!!!!!

;-)

I love the steel!

So bold and heavy!

Powerful!!!

None of this whimpy wood stuff everone always wants to use in this city ....

clad in wood though ..... sort of says it all right there, doesn't it ... wood cannot support itself .... needs steel

;-)

Unitas, Look around our town, Ever see the donor walls around Prince George, they all have Canfor on it. And you say they do nothing for this city. If it was not for Canfor carrying this city thru the eighties and nighties, Over half of the business would have been lost.

Every time a special interest group needs money, they suckhole to Canfor for support.

I do not mean to slight Canfor for the donations they have made to the community. In fact, I thank them for those donations.

However, one needs to be a bit objexctive and not forget about others either. Thus, it would be good to keep the donations in perspective.

When Canfor donates $500,000 per year to the community, let us say, that is the equivalent of the fully loaded cost of 5 middle management employees. In addition, the same as most such donations, they are shown as an expense of doing business at the least, so that they have a smaller tax burden.

Thus, when organization X receives a cheque for $500,000, let us say $400,000 of that money comes from Canfor and $100,000 of that actually comes from the government of BC and Canada.

I would not be surprised if there are several smaller organizations who give more dollars on a proportional basis.

So yes, they are a large firm and give large sums of money as opposed to small firms that give small sums of money. As a result, Canfor's name will be on facilties or events more often than the names of smaller groups. Thus it is natural for people to walk away with the name Canfor in their head rather than Midas Auto Repairs.

Are these donations from Canfor tax deductable for them? I betcha they are and were and will be, when they give again.

"If were not for the mills, you whiners, PG would not be what it is today"

I disagree. I tend to think that if it weren't for the mills, PG would not be was it was in the 60's, 70's and 80's. I think if it were not for UNBC, PG would not be what it is today. As someone who was born and raised in PG, I much prefer the PG of today to the one from the 80's and prior :)

I notice the view stand at Forest for the World now has the view of the city blocked by trees that have grown up around the view stand. Is it time to do some pruning there I wonder?

Actually I would like to see a city plan where they remove trees that are blocking view scape's. PG is so full of magnificent view scape's like almost no other city and yet they are all blocked by trees. I support selective pruning of trees that block magnificent view scape's. We have lots of trees so I think we can afford to lose a few.

Also I really like the idea of park benches donated to these kinds of view scape's as memorials for people who have passed away. I really appreciate it when I come across those infrastructure improvements done in the memory of others. I wish more people would get with that kind of community spirit....

Unfortunately, the photo does not do the site justice. There is a 200 degree view of the whole valley, not just the mills. I was up there the other day. Finally a place where we can go and enjoy an expanse of the area without driving to the top of George Mountain.

Thanks Rotary....

I agree with selectively cutting some trees for a view ....

In fact, when the UNBC was built, that happened. If one stood at that site 15 years ago, one would have been standing in thick woods with a bunch of trees a few feet away blocking the view. No one would have known there was a city below.

The same goes for Tyner Blvd. No view of the City until one of the property owners decided to sell some timber and opened up the view.

Hey, that is one of those private land owners with private timber who removed the timber to make a buck and will be selling, or has sold the land underneath to make another buck or two.

;-)

There are lots of good views of the city form heights of land around it.

Unfortunately one has to park the car and walk a bit further than at this spot at UNBC.

Time they made a road to those spots at Gunn Park and the top of the Nechako cutbanks so that one just has to point the car in the right direction, park at the edge, relax and watch the submarine races.

;-)

Isn't it a luxury to make a living in Prince George, and bash the forest industry. Its just shows to us how far we have come in the past 20 years, to slowly intergrate the employment of our citizen into other industry. Thanks to mining, oil industry, UNBC, NHA, Service center for northern BC.

Thank you mr/mrs politician for pointing us common folks into the right direction.