Victoria city council is studying allowing beach fires. All the while, British Columbia forces school boards to be carbon-neutral.
So school boards are spending scarce education dollars to buy carbon credits to balance any pollution created by running their schools. Now, a city council is considering allowing beach fires that would create unnecessary pollution and greenhouse gases. Am I the only one who finds these two policies counterproductive?
On the bright side, if beach fires are legalized, all the school boards need to do is pay people not to have a beach fire to earn the carbon credits the provincial government requires.
Isn’t it great to see our tax dollars at work?
Steen Petersen
Nanaimo
