www.pgcitizen.ca THE PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011 IT'S WHAT MATTERS UL YOU Newsstand $1.75 | Home Delivered 67c/day All's fair! PGX returns for 99th summer ARTS 17 TAKING STOCK Breaking down the standings so far in the race season sports 10 LACKING LINK Liberals rail against poor state of Montreal's Champlain Bridge CANADA 13 Libya grows more isolated as it blocks Italy from oil WORLD 15 P.G. candidate for quit study Smoking cessation program looking to turn city into research model Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff fpeebles@pgcitizen.ca Proponents of the Allen Carr Easyway to Stop Smoking (ACESS) method want to use Prince George as a test site. The smoking cessation program has been available for decades, but there is little scientific data from Canada to show our country’s results, said Pamela Mc-Coll, a representative of the company. She was in Prince George this week to talk with the City of Prince George, Northern Health and the University of Northern B.C. in the hopes this city would become a pilot community. Those who attend a five-hour seminar would be tracked to see short- and long-term effects. The ACESS nique designed by Allen Carr. It is based on a philosophy of fostering common will-power techniques and helpful mental triggers for each smoker. It uses no pill, gum, patch or other nicotine replacements. It uses mostly a five-hour seminar and a book. Many participate with only the book. “There is a demand for studies that show the program’s results in North America, so I said fine, I would find a university in Canada to study this,” said McColl. “Our program is focused in major cities but I knew Prince George [she lived here as a child] and I knew the smoking rates and cancer rates were a big concern around Prince George, so I hope we can do our work up there and at the same time do some science.” — See MUNICIPAL on page 3 FORESTRY Firm given final piece of air improvement funding Gordon HOEKSTRA Citizen staff ghoekstra@pgcitizen.ca Canfor Pulp has been awarded the remainder of $122 million in funding it was eligible for under a federal program targeted at reducing energy consumption and reducing environmental impacts. Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver announced more than $50 million in investments in the Canadian forest sector Thursday, including $6.4 million for Canfor’s P.G. Pulp mill under the green transformation fund, introduced by the Stephen Harper Conservative government in 2009 to counter a U.S. subsidy program. “We are continuing to invest in areas that will further the transformation of Canada’s forest sector,” said Oliver. “Transformation and innovation are integral to building a more prosperous future for the many communities that depend on our forest sector.” The $6.4 million will be used to install a new electrostatic precipitator to reduce fine particulate emissions into the Prince George airshed, confirmed Canfor Pulp spokesman David Scott. Canfor Pulp had earlier outlined four projects it was applying for funding under the federal program. It has now received approval for all four projects. The largest is a $100-million upgrade to Canfor Pulp’s recovery boiler at its Northwood Pulp mill in Prince George. The company has already undertaken some preliminary work for that project - including engineering and some foundation work -but the bulk of the construction is planned for the months of August and September in 2011 during a plant shutdown. The project is scheduled to be complete by the end of the 2011 year. Canfor Pulp, which employs about 1,100 people, has received accolades for its projects from the city’s air-quality advocacy group, the People’s Action Committee for Healthy Air. The projects are reducing fine particulate air pollutants, considered a leading air quality concern in Prince George, as well as odours. The federal announcements made Thursday also included $2.1 million under a different program for the Nechako Lumber mill in Vanderhoof. The money will be used by Nechako Lumber to install a system to capture waste heat to produce power, which will be sold. 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