Shame on you
I am appalled at the recklessly misleading headline in the [December 10] Peak which states: “Mill emissions below standards.”
How many people would not read this headline and take it to mean that Catalyst Paper Corporation failed to meet standard requirements? How many people do not equate below standard to being less than good enough? How many people do not tend to read a headline and simply move on to the next article? How many people would take this to mean that in actual fact, Catalyst has by far exceeded the compliance air quality regulations in 2014 in every way?
It’s not until you actually read the article is the reader made aware of the fact that this actually shows that Catalyst has done a good job and not a bad one at falling well below the permissible levels for air quality. In reading this article I kept waiting for the “other shoe to drop,” waiting to read where Catalyst might have failed. Guess what, it’s not there. It did not happen. Oh my, when they said “below standard” what they really meant was way above standard.
Shame on you for your grandstanding, biased reporting.
Bill Chinn
Ontario Avenue
Pump price control
With the price of gas falling all across the country, why are Powell River’s gas stations still on par with the far north? Are we that isolated that it affects the gas price that much? I looked at Gas Buddy and we are right up there among the highest in BC [“Gas companies to wake up,” January 15].
Courtenay is $1.03 and I believe they get the gas trucked in same as we do, so what’s up? I think it is time to send a message to our local stations that they should get on board and lower their prices. We are a captive consumer for gas. The stations make a large profit on selling goods from inside the station, perhaps we should boycott that and not purchase anything except gas. It should not take long before they realize the public is not happy with the price of gas.
The excuse the stations paid a higher price for what is in the storage tank does not fly as we all know the price goes up very quickly, so that does not reflect on the price of what is in the storage tank but yet they use that excuse when lowering the price.
So which station in Powell River is going to take the bull by the horns and drop the price by at least 10 cents per litre? I wonder if they are brave enough.
CBC News’ website states: “Despite the seeming ubiquity of PetroCanada and Shell stations across Canada, only about 15 per cent of Canada’s gas stations are under direct pricing control from the big oil companies, a recent analysis from oil consultancy MJ Irvin & Associates found.”
Here is a link to the full story.
Larry Law
Huntingdon Street
