Editor:
In her letter to the editor entitled “Other issues need our attention”(Coast Reporter, April 25), Michele March accuses the Gibsons Alliance of Business and Community Society (GABC) of dismissing an inquiry she says she made of us about the garbage incinerator proposed for a site near Port Mellon.
It’s a little odd to be chastised for not being enough of an environmental extremist by someone who publicly rails against the society for raising issues and concerns around a development project that could endanger our drinking water aquifer and could spread toxic contaminants in Gibsons Harbour.
Strange, too, that Ms. March has never directly inquired with the GABC Society ([email protected]), nor does she speak to any of us when we see her at weekly town council meetings. She does, however, obsessively post indignant comments on our GABC Facebook page, about our concerns around the George hotel proposal.
As for environmental issues, GABC supports the precautionary principle as our community’s most prudent guide when facing environmental and public policy decisions that will have an impact on human health or air, land and marine environments. We work in collaboration with many grassroots groups on a number of issues, including those that threaten Howe Sound.
The campaign to save Gibsons waterfront is our main focus at this time, and our objectives have never wavered. We would support a hotel on the waterfront that respects the official community plan and zoning bylaws (maximum 35 ft. high), doesn’t spread toxic contamination into the marine environment and protects the Gibsons aquifer.
Rather than criticizing others for things she wishes to have done, we invite Ms. March to engage us in civil dialogue.
Suzanne Senger, president GABC
