SHARE ON: Lheidli t enneh Chief Dolleen Logan (Photo by Dione Wearmouth, mypgnow.com)
She says the project will cause environmental issues and add to the already low air quality Prince George deals with on a regular basis.
“The main message is, it’s not welcomed in Lheidli T’enneh territory, we don’t want them here and we know Pineview doesn’t want them here. We want the government to hear this message, I want the federal government to hear this message. I want Canada’s financial and energy sectors to hear this message,” she stated.
This announcement follows a meeting on July 27th, when Pineview residents gathered to share concerns over the project, which resulted in a vote that resulted in 270 against the project and 21 in favour of the project.
SHARE ON: (Photo supplied by City of PG and Lheidli T enneh)
West Coast Olefins 5.6-billion dollar petrochemical plant relocation to Prince George has garnered differing views from Mayor Lyn Hall and Lheidli T’enneh Chief Clay Pountney.
Hall told
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“We want to have people become interested in this community from an investment perspective and we’ve seen that and we have seen a great deal of that over the last five or six years.”
“We are seeing a tremendous amount of companies within Prince George providing services to the resource sector whether it would be mining, the LNG, pipeline construction and those sorts of things, it’s another one of those major pieces of the puzzle when you talk about restarting the economy. If you take a look at the project and the magnitude of it, the impact it would have on the economy when it comes to job opportunities for a number of people. This is really something we have talked about as a city.”