ACC may be heading to friendly Prince George

 

 

A visit from one of our sister newspapers yielded some interesting information yesterday.

Hugh Nicholson, who publishes the Prince George Citizen, stopped in to say hello on his way home after a short break, and mentioned to me that his city took note of the fact Aboriginal Cogeneration Corp. was made unwelcome here. In addition to serving as publisher at the paper, Nicholson is president of the downtown business association in Prince George.

That association is keenly interested in getting the bio-energy project Kamloops ran out of town. “If Kamloops doesn’t want you we’ll take you in Prince George,” was the message given to ACC president Kim Sigurdson, as quoted from an interview a little later in the day with Daily News reporter Cam Fortems.

Indeed, a group of business folks have held a conference call with Sigurdson about the possibility of ACC landing there, though Sigurdson was characteristically reluctant to talk about it yesterday. Prince George, as I learned when I attended a bio-energy conference there a few months ago, is seriously into alternative energy sources.

Our northern neighbour understands the potential for green and clean economic development via bio-energy, and appears undeterred by the controversy here in which mass fear was manufactured out of thin air against ACC’s gasification project.

That’s in keeping with the situation as I understand it in Europe, where communities compete for such projects as job creators and solutions to waste disposal.

In the end, it would seem, our loss may very well be P.G.’s gain.