Mixed reaction to petrochemical announcement
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PRINCE GEORGE – More yeas than nays in the community for a multi-billion dollar petrochemical facility proposed for the BCR Industrial site.West Coast Olefins announced yesterday plans for a $5.6 billion petrochemical plant, to be located in the BCR industrial site. It would create as many as a thousand full time jobs.
Local realtor Ken Goss says he started getting calls immediately from investors wanting to get on board.
“We’ve been phone calls from up North as far back as Saskatchewan and stuff like that. So, it’s going to be big and I’m not the only one that they’re phoning.”
He says he has had investor calling looking for land that would accommodate apartment complexes and so on. Reaction from environmental organizations has been quiet, with concerns focused mainly around the location of proposed facility in the Bowl area.
