BASES notifications encouraging more MyCNN subscriptions
By Tyler Kula, The Sarnia Observer
About 1,000 more accounts have subscribed to community alerts in Sarnia-Lambton since last May.
“So it seems we’ve got some interest,” general manager Vince Gagner said.
It was then that Community Awareness Emergency Response (CAER), the Sarnia-Lambton Environmental Association (SLEA) and the Industrial Education Cooperative (IEC) – Gagner is general manager for all three – launched the Bluewater Association for Safety, Environment and Sustainability (BASES).
The move was to increase the amount of information members of the public received about things like flaring and spills at area petrochemical plants, as well as road closures and other health and safety information via CAER’s My Community Notification Network (MyCNN) system.
That “was in response to feedback from our member companies and our community … to look for a way to improve engagement,” Gagner said.
Companies like Nova Chemicals, Imperial Oil and CF Industries have signed on one by one to post non-emergency information in the months since, he said.