Editor:
Re: "Why are we building at Ebbtide?" (Coast Reporter letters, May 17).
We have now had three months of Jef Keighley giving us, the people of Sechelt, the benefit of his "critical thinking" about our new wastewater plant. And now we learn he is just giving us a neighbourly warning out of concern for our safety?
To deliver his neighbourly warning he has written to various Sechelt resident groups to encourage them to oppose the project, dividing our community in the process. He has tried to be our social conscience by telling us Veolia is bad.
He used mailing lists of various clubs and societies to organise protests and disrupt council meetings. He has gone to the provincial press (with his wrong assertions) and had Sechelt's name dragged through the mud. And now we learn he is organizing a group that will launch a lawsuit to pressure Sechelt to reverse its decision.
Should we accept someone from outside this town, unelected and unaccountable, who will stop at nothing to reverse decisions made by those who are elected and accountable?
If Keighley wants to get so actively involved in Sechelt's decision-making, then he should first move here, and then run for mayor or council. That is how democracy works.
Until then, I have to question the agenda of someone from outside this town going to such lengths to reverse decisions made inside this town.
That is not neighbourly at all.
Greg Deacon, Sechelt
