What Will It Take ?

It was almost light yesterday morning when I left for work. As I drove down the highway dropping into the bowl, where the city is, it got smoggier and stinkier, visibility got poorer. The local CBC broadcast was warning about an air quality advisory for the third day in a row.

Bad air quality is common in Prince George. Before we lived here I remember being stuck in a hotel room for most of a day because our connecting flight from Dawson Creek to Vancouver was grounded. Quite often the air doesn’t clear until mid morning. Now I live up the highway north west of town, I’m far enough away from the pulp mills and the city not to be affected by the smog although I can still smell the mill some days.

I’ve signed lots of petitions supposedly to put pressure on the mills to clean themselves up. Hah.

Update: The air quality advisory is in effect again today. That's four days in a row.