Re: “Food scraps may have no place to go but landfill,” March 27.
I wonder how much money was spent on the initiative to reduce the amount of garbage going to the Hartland landfill.
As an environmentally minded Victoria citizen, I fully supported this initiative. My family was already composting, but now all food scraps would go to the green bin. I wrongly trusted that the Capital Regional District, along with the municipalities involved, had properly vetted Foundation Organics, which had been contracted to handle the composting. One would assume that all the logistics of this program had been worked out before launching this “green” program.
The problem is that we have this level of government called the CRD that is made up of appointed members, which we as voters have no say over, whatsoever.
The CRD’s bungling of the composting resulted in a vote of four against three (two members did not have the nerve to vote) not to contract Emterra at an additional estimated cost of $1.3 million. It looks as if the green bins will go to the landfill.
Let’s get rid of this costly level of government. If it has handled this green bin program so badly, imagine what will happen with the sewage treatment project.
Brian Cameron
Victoria
