Re: “Thumbs down for plant site,” June 18.
The report on the first Capital Regional District open house about the proposed sludge plant mistakenly referred to “Kelowna’s biosolids plant, which is in the midst of a neighbourhood … .”
That mistake is understandable. Anyone would make the same assumption, since the aerial photograph of the neighbourhood surrounding the Kelowna wastewater treatment facility is half of a CRD display board entitled “What Does it Mean to Have a Biosolids Energy Centre in the Neighbourhood?”
However, there is no biosolids plant in that photograph nor in that residential neighbourhood. Kelowna sends its sludge outside the city to be composted.
Is the CRD intentionally misleading us? What else in their “educational” display is inaccurate, misleading or incomplete?
The residents and businesses in the neighbourhood around the Viewfield site, as well as all the other taxpayers in the CRD, deserve open public hearings about this important and expensive issue. We deserve facts, not blithe assurances. We deserve complete and accurate information. We deserve to have our questions answered by the politicians making these decisions.
A few display panels designed by a public-relations firm is not public consultation.
Jane Baigent
Victoria
