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Re: Close work camps
The northern work camps are probably some of the safest places to be right now. Every out of town/out of province worker is tested for Covid-19 before they are allowed to come here. Locals are tested as well. Social distancing is enforced, wearing a mask while indoors is strictly adhered to, at work as well as in the lodgings.
Only 2 people sit at a eight-foot table in the dining hall, one at either end. Table is sanitized before the next person is allowed to sit in that seat. The office/ lunch rooms/vehicles/ equipment is all sanitized after each use, with documentation via a logbook. Lunch/coffee breaks are staggered to have enough seats in the trailers to maintain social distancing. No interaction without a specific reason is allowed with the town. Nobody allowed to go for dinner/drinks in town. Town visits are scrutinized. Workers can’t just go to 5 different stores to shop. There is a provincial health order in place and these company’s are very serious about following all the protocols to ensure they can stay open and working.
As far as your tax dollars being spent here, guess again. This project is the single largest private investment in Canadian history! The so called “climate wrecking fossil fuel project” will actually decrease GHG emissions by helping to eliminate using coal to produce power. Natural gas, while still a fossil fuel, burns a lot cleaner than coal. If the natural gas pipeline leaks, the stuff just dissipates, doesn’t create an environmental disaster.
If we close all these projects down, where are the tax dollars to invest in clean energy projects going to come from? If we stop projects like Site C, where is future power requirements coming from? The currant bush? Hydro electric power is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to produce the large amounts of electricity we will require in the future. Wind and solar, without government subsidies, is a long way off from suppling what we need for power. Have you ever witnessed a wind farm? Or a large solar panel array? Not real friendly to the environment.
If anything, they should stop all international travel for a month. That may have an impact.
I am getting tired of people who get their “facts” from social media spouting off about something they know nothing about.
End of rant.
Jack Staeheli
