Overwhelmingly, the issue that should be dominating the local elections is the proposal to spend $800 million or more to build a land-based sewage-treatment plant. To do so would be to perpetrate a terrible wrong, for it uses an act intended to protect the environment to damage it and would be irreversible. It makes the money we propose to spend to stop refugees starving look pitiable.
The proposal is not supported by any of the medical health officers, biologists or oceanographers who have been monitoring the outfalls. At 88, I have been fighting this for half my life and it sickens me that no political pamphlet even mentions it.
J.E. (Ted) Dew-Jones, P.Eng.
Victoria
