This morning was a good time to re-read Dr Marie Hay's frightening letter about the proposal to locate the Olefin petrochemical plant in Prince George.
It is now 11 a.m. and the air is still hazy and somewhat putrid but earlier we had a thick smog reminding me of the stinking London smogs which killed thousands of people over half a century ago.
That was partly solved by the Clean Air Act of 1956 - power plants abandoned coal heating.
I cannot believe that we are now so frantic for jobs that we'll allow a plant producing plastic precursors to be placed within 40 km of this populous city. As Dr. Hay points out, the byproducts have many known and unknown damaging effects on the health of humans as well as animals, and the environment, and are impossible to eliminate once deposited.
Please think again seriously, people!
Carolyn McGhee, MD
Prince George
