DogOnPorch Posted March 5, 2010 Report Posted March 5, 2010 Prince George, BC...a pulp & paper city...has struggled with 'the smell of money' for decades, but apparently the BC government has been hiding some of the nastier test results. Formaldehyde levels deemed toxic to human life have turned up in residential neighbourhoods along the banks of the Fraser River. The BC government for reasons not yet clear decided to hush-hush the results. Erin Brockovich anyone? Always a bit of a whipping post, Prince George is often described by Lower Mainland residents as 'Beyond Hope' in reference to the town of Hope which is the final stop as one leaves the Greater Vancouver area. One road leads north (to hillbilly land), ...while another leads to the fabulous OK Valley. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/03/03/bc-prince-george-formaldehyde-millar-addition.html http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/03/04/bc-prince-george-formaldehyde-new-tests.html http://topnews.us/content/212470-toxins-air-prince-george-residents-kept-dark Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
eyeball Posted March 5, 2010 Report Posted March 5, 2010 (edited) WTF cares? Apparently DFO doesn't care anymore than the province. We have too many layers of big distant government with no accountability to anyone at any sort of local or regional level. Bio-regional or area-based management that is defined by watershed is the way to go. Good management practices are just about impossible when economic development collides with environmental stewardship under our present regimes. This is why private corporations whose business impacts the natural environment within a defined biogeoclimatic region should have representatives from that region elected to their boards of directors. Edited March 5, 2010 by eyeball Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
Hydraboss Posted March 5, 2010 Report Posted March 5, 2010 Why would anyone care when there's "crosses burning on the lawns"? Quote "racist, intolerant, small-minded bigot" - AND APPARENTLY A SOCIALIST (2010) (2015)Economic Left/Right: 8.38 3.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.13 -1.23
eyeball Posted March 5, 2010 Report Posted March 5, 2010 Why would anyone care about who is accountable to who vis a vis the government and Parliament when something as vitally important as the national anthem is up in the air? Quote I said now watch what you say they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh fanatical criminal
bill_barilko Posted March 6, 2010 Report Posted March 6, 2010 As to Who Cares it's a bit of a Catch 22. Locals openly call their home town The Pig and dismiss the stench as The Smell Of Money, public drunkenness and drug taking are rampant, it's a grim shithole that garners no sympathy from anyone who's visited there. I'm not suggesting anyone deserves poisoning but the President of the local citizens action committee is naive beyond belief if he thinks Govt attention to long standing problems isn't media driven. Quote
DogOnPorch Posted March 6, 2010 Author Report Posted March 6, 2010 (edited) As to Who Cares it's a bit of a Catch 22. Locals openly call their home town The Pig and dismiss the stench as The Smell Of Money, public drunkenness and drug taking are rampant, it's a grim shithole that garners no sympathy from anyone who's visited there. I've never heard that particular term used by folks who made their homes there. Perhaps the transients use it...there's always plenty of those hanging around PG. As for drug taking and public drunkeness, Vancouver still wins, hands down. There's one neighbourhood in Prince George, though, where you might indeed see hookers, drunks and junkies all on the same block. Refered to as the VLA or 'The Hood'. I'm not suggesting anyone deserves poisoning but the President of the local citizens action committee is naive beyond belief if he thinks Govt attention to long standing problems isn't media driven. The 'Good ol' Boys Club' in Prince George is famous for doing absolutely nothing re: making things better in terms of the industry. They know the workers won't make a fuss as their jobs and mortgages depend upon polluting the landscape. The only change comes after much proding or perhaps even legal action. The 'Smell of Money' is nowhere near like it was in the 1960s and 1970s, though...where pea soup pollution fog rolled over the city daily. The pulp mills were given primo spots on the Fraser up-stream from the city in the early 1960s without much regard at all to how they would impact the area. Trail did a similar stupid thing. That being said, this seems not to be a problem with the pulp-mills which are rarely all working at once these days. The likely suspects are the refinery located just across the Fraser (perhaps breaking the rules) or an old garbage dump (closed in the 1960s) that used to be located right where Cottonwood Island Park is now. The neighbourhood in question is one of PG's richer areas, luckily...and closest to the industry...which makes me think ground contamination more than air pollution. But I'm not the expert like the MOE types who are supposed to be keeping BC citizens safe. Edited March 6, 2010 by DogOnPorch Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
DogOnPorch Posted March 6, 2010 Author Report Posted March 6, 2010 Why would anyone care when there's "crosses burning on the lawns"? She's still not welcome in Prince George...lol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Fry Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
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