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Council wants public comment extension concerns about the effect dust and noise coming from the “I’m concerned about terminal will have on their Prince Rupert city council quality of life, and have been how quickly the environ- more than a little skeptical of is asking the Prince Rupert Port Authority and Pinnacle the port and the company’s mental assessment is Renewable Energy to extend assurances that these issues will the environmental assessment mitigated. being rushed through.” be greatly of a contentious wood pellet Last November the Prince terminal on the city’s waterfront Ken Shaw Rupert Port Authority sent so that the public is given more a letter out to the residents than three weeks to give their encouraging them to share their input on the project. views on the project during the They are also asking the port to work environmental assessment process. with the City to develop a waterfront plan “Simply put, your opinion matters. before the project moves ahead any further. If Pinnacle’s proposal proceeds to The pellet terminal has been met an environmental assessment, your with opposition from residents who live participation in community consultation will near the proposed site of the pellet facility be highly valued,” reads the port’s letter. at Westview Terminal. They have raised The environmental assessment report,
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which provides all the information on the project and its expected environmental impact, was uploaded to the Port Authority’s website on May 14, but residents only have until June 5 to make their comments on the project. There is also an open house for the public to attend scheduled for May 29. One of the neighbourhood residents, Ken Shaw, came to Prince Rupert city council on Monday to argue that three weeks was simply not enough time. He asked council to intervene on residents’ behalf and ask the port and Pinnacle Pellet to extend the time line, which council voted to do. “I’m concerned about how quickly the environmental assessment is being rushed through and that the community will not be able to fully assess and discuss the implications of this,” said Shaw. See Pellet, page 2
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