All major construction projects in BC – including pipelines –are being ordered to massively cut the number of workers at worksites in a bid to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus..BC Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Bonnie Henry ordered the work slowdown December 29 at the LNG Canada natural gas liquefaction and export facility being build in Kitimat, the Coastal GasLink pipeline being built from Dawson Creek to Kitimat, the Site C dam project near Fort St. John, the twinning of the Trans Mountain Pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby and the twinning of the tunnel near Kitimat that provides water to power Rio Tinto’s aluminum smelter..The order limits the Coastal GasLink pipeline and Site C projects to 400 workers each. LNG Canada is allowed 450 workers, the Rio Tinto project can have 160 and Trans Mountain Pipeline, 50 workers.. Mossleigh pub briefly opens before authorities move in .“There has been a rapid increase in the number of persons infected with COVID-19 associated with large scale industrial projects employing high numbers of workers which are located with the Northern Health Authority region,” Henry wrote in the order obtained by the Western Standard..“This increase has resulted in increased numbers of clusters of people with COVID-19, outbreaks of COVID-19, the transmission of COVID-19 to surrounding communities — including Indigenous communities — increasing the risk of hospitalizations, intensive care admissions and deaths in the Northern Health region..“The current seasonal slowdown in large-scale industrial operations provides an opportunity to help break the cycle of transmission ….“A rapid return to full operating capacity on the part of large-scale industrial operations, with the attendant rapid return of large numbers of workers to the work sites and industrial camps will likely further fuel and accelerate the cycle of transmission of COVID-19 among workers and their surrounding communities,” she wrote..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.Twitter.com/nobby769
All major construction projects in BC – including pipelines –are being ordered to massively cut the number of workers at worksites in a bid to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus..BC Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Bonnie Henry ordered the work slowdown December 29 at the LNG Canada natural gas liquefaction and export facility being build in Kitimat, the Coastal GasLink pipeline being built from Dawson Creek to Kitimat, the Site C dam project near Fort St. John, the twinning of the Trans Mountain Pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby and the twinning of the tunnel near Kitimat that provides water to power Rio Tinto’s aluminum smelter..The order limits the Coastal GasLink pipeline and Site C projects to 400 workers each. LNG Canada is allowed 450 workers, the Rio Tinto project can have 160 and Trans Mountain Pipeline, 50 workers.. Mossleigh pub briefly opens before authorities move in .“There has been a rapid increase in the number of persons infected with COVID-19 associated with large scale industrial projects employing high numbers of workers which are located with the Northern Health Authority region,” Henry wrote in the order obtained by the Western Standard..“This increase has resulted in increased numbers of clusters of people with COVID-19, outbreaks of COVID-19, the transmission of COVID-19 to surrounding communities — including Indigenous communities — increasing the risk of hospitalizations, intensive care admissions and deaths in the Northern Health region..“The current seasonal slowdown in large-scale industrial operations provides an opportunity to help break the cycle of transmission ….“A rapid return to full operating capacity on the part of large-scale industrial operations, with the attendant rapid return of large numbers of workers to the work sites and industrial camps will likely further fuel and accelerate the cycle of transmission of COVID-19 among workers and their surrounding communities,” she wrote..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.Twitter.com/nobby769
