Just another thought

Today I spoke with Kim Sigurdson, president of the ACC, and he told me, among other things, that his proposed creosote disposal facility did not burn railway ties it "processed" them. He then went on to explain how the gasification process works and told me that, as he said again and again at the forum, the facility would produce as "much emissions as a wood stove."

He told me to be a "good journalist" I had to understand the difference between burning and processing ties. I intend to be a good journalist, by being objective, not by inputting his words into my article.

In my opinion, his proposed green solution to the creosote soaked railway tie problem is impossible. I have been taught in science for as long as I can remember that for every chemical action, there is a reaction the produces some form of product equivalent to the action.

Is Sigurdson trying to tell me that he has found a way around this basic scientific equation?

While scientific innovations are discovered all the time, splitting the atom didn't work out according to plan at first, and perhaps the bottom line is Kamloops doesn't have to volunteer to be the testing ground.