{"id":127593,"date":"2022-11-18T14:08:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=127593"},"modified":"2022-11-18T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:00:34","slug":"prince-rupert-receives-brownie-award-for-watson-island-rehabilitation-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/prince-rupert-receives-brownie-award-for-watson-island-rehabilitation-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Rupert receives &#8216;Brownie Award&#8217; for Watson Island rehabilitation work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prince Rupert has been recognized by the National Brownfield Awards this week for its work on Watson Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicknamed \u201cThe Brownies,\u201d the awards spotlight projects that redevelop previously unusable sites. The city and its partners were awarded the title of Best Overall Large Project for their work on the rehabilitation of the island at the Nov. 14 ceremony in Toronto.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watson Island was the site of the Skeena Cellulose Pulp Mill from 1951-2001 before the company went bankrupt, leaving the city to own the island and the abandoned mill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis has set a great template for what we can do moving forward\u2026 and take what was once both an environmental burden but also a financial burden to the city and convert it into an environmentally friendly site,\u201d says newly sworn in Mayor Herb Pond of the remediation project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, the city started work with a series of partners including McElhanney, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and Trillium Environmental Ltd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the biggest examples of successful remediation on the island was the old pulp chemicals that were extracted from the site and utilized by other mills around Canada. The project also achieved a 95 per cent recycling rate for materials that were left on the island according to the announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By 2021, one portion of the island had already been fully decommissioned and rebuilt for a new Pembina propane transfer and export terminal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city hopes that this is just the start of what the island could achieve in terms of industrial development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR story with Sean Carlson and Prince Rupert Mayor Herb Pond below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Rupert has been recognized by the National Brownfield Awards this week for its work on Watson Island. Nicknamed \u201cThe Brownies,\u201d the awards spotlight projects that redevelop previously unusable sites. The city and its partners were awarded the title of Best Overall Large Project for their work on the rehabilitation of the island at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":127612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,222],"tags":[20871,20870,20875,20872,3456,20876,20873,20874],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127684,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127593\/revisions\/127684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127593"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=127593"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=127593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}