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Environment Week Starts Today

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Sunday, June 01, 2008 03:57 AM

Prince George, B.C. - Today marks the start of Environment Week and that means the Commuter Challenge is here.

The Commuter Challenge is a friendly competition between Canadian communities that encourages people to use sustainable modes of transportation. Prince George participants are asked to register and leave single-occupancy vehicles at home.

Alternative modes of transport include jogging, walking, cycling, in-line skating, public transit, carpooling or teleworking during Environment Week (June 1-7, 2008).

June 4

th is the Clean Air Day, with Prince George transit rides costing only 25¢ for those with “Be Part of the Solution” buttons. FREE buttons are available for pick up at City Hall, UNBC and CNC bookstores, all Shoppers Drug Mart locations, Hart Drugs, Reid’s Prescriptions.

For people with longer commutes or a tough climb out of the bowl, residents can use Bike and Bus with bikeracks on local transit busses which allow commuters to combine two low impact modes of transportation.

To register and track the difference made by participating, log on to the Commuter Challenge website at www.commuterchallenge.ca  


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I can hardly wait to see the proportional benefits this will yield,tax savings? maybe not buy that new car for a few more years,a good feeling inside while you are being raped by gordy,sore muscles, more cycle accidents with the famous road ragers of the hart highway, meanwhile the mines and pulp mills pump the sulphur dioxide into the air and water- unmonitored by gordy - thats the smell of money and sudsy froths on the fraser under the cover of darkness,kinda gives you a slippery feeling like the average person being goosed!think i'll keep my old car a few more years.
A switch on the shaker burned up last night, could someone run down town to the Northern and pick up another one?

Isn't this Sunday Healthy Kids Day? Should be lots of vehicles down there enjoying the sunshine.
LOL

I find this announcement hilarious!

We are going to have a competition? Soo funny.

We are also going to give out thousands of buttons that will end up in the landfill?
Cool...this will help the environment!

Yuk yuk
"...while you are being raped by gordy,sore muscles, more cycle accidents with the famous road ragers of the hart highway, meanwhile the mines and pulp mills pump the sulphur dioxide into the air and water- unmonitored by gordy -..."

Meet the "All Powerful *gordy*!"

Before *gordy* it was paradise - after *gordy* it will be paradise again, wanna bet?
Environment week, eh?

So here is the photo I took flying in to PG this morning at 10am during the start of environment week.

Our infamous pellet plant .... blue plumes visible from burning wood??? and greyish brown emissions from cleaning out the bag house???? who knows???? All I know is that the emissions are not supposed to be 100% opaque like that.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2197/2543637372_df21e30dbe_b.jpg

Welcome to PG ..... where brand new industrial plants can get away without putting in best available technology and god knows what else.
Dip says .."Before *gordy* it was paradise - after *gordy* it will be paradise again, wanna bet?.."

I may be jumping to conclusions here but just curious, is Dip saying the Harcort and Clark NDP years were great? Man has Dip been sitting under a rock or what? If you have any records just have a look at your house assessment while those NDP jerks were in government. Thank the luck that Canada had a real strong economy during those years as BC became a "Have-Not-Province" like eastern Canada and BC got federal assistance.

On the other hand maybe it is just a difference of opinion on what paradise is. The NDP years were great times for the repo boys, they made a killing when people couldn't make the payments! What's hell for most of us, is paradice for others. It's all relative I guess, can't really call bottom feeders bad if that's what they do for a living.