We need leadership on sewage plant siting
Times Colonist
August 22, 2014
Re: “McLoughlin sewage plant dead?,” Aug. 15.
Why on earth would municipalities think that just because Esquimalt has an open parcel of land that that is where the sewage treatment plant should go?
Why is this asset seen as anything less than Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park, or Oak Bay’s Victoria Golf Course? Both, in my eyes, are equal alternatives for a plant.
This whole scenario can easily be seen as the biggest form of municipal bullying that I’ve seen. How about one of the other municipal mayors stepping up to the plate and offering up some land?
Oh I forgot, that would require leadership and would be in no means politic, kind of like the simple case of dealing with the deer over the last five years. People in high places should be ashamed!
John Spence
Oak Bay
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Times Colonist
August 22, 2014
Re: “McLoughlin sewage plant dead?,” Aug. 15.
Why on earth would municipalities think that just because Esquimalt has an open parcel of land that that is where the sewage treatment plant should go?
Why is this asset seen as anything less than Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park, or Oak Bay’s Victoria Golf Course? Both, in my eyes, are equal alternatives for a plant.
This whole scenario can easily be seen as the biggest form of municipal bullying that I’ve seen. How about one of the other municipal mayors stepping up to the plate and offering up some land?
Oh I forgot, that would require leadership and would be in no means politic, kind of like the simple case of dealing with the deer over the last five years. People in high places should be ashamed!
John Spence
Oak Bay
© Copyright Times Colonist
