Re: “Councillor: Put sewage issue on the ballot,” Aug. 27.
Coun. Tim Morrison of Esquimalt is absolutely right. The Capital Regional District remains impermeable to the truth.
It continues to ignore the fact that the vast majority of residents in Esquimalt support their local government, especially surrounding their decision on McLoughlin Point. Apparently, they need another demonstration.
The sewage issue is of huge importance in Greater Victoria, since it is the single most expensive project ever proposed in the capital region. A question such as “Do you support putting a single, central, secondary sewage plant on a site at McLoughlin Point with an 18-kilometre pipeline to a bio-digester at the Hartland landfill?” should be on every core-area municipal ballot in this fall’s election.
That seems unlikely, though, because many of our local politicians representing the CRD have already wasted $50 million on a proposal that never made any sense and is now impossible to implement.
Dave Ferguson
Saanich
