Editor:
It is alarming to see our Sechelt mayor and council apparently making behind closed doors arbitrary decisions involving our new sewage treatment plant without prior meaningful public consultation.
Many aspects of these decisions are very controversial and as it is the largest single capital project in the history of our district government, these choices well deserve to be open to public discussion before contracts are signed and final choices made. The unnecessary downtown location of a sewage treatment plant operating with reportedly new and untested technology when a large rural property purchased for this purpose sits idle is questionable. As is partnering with a multi-national corporation, a large operator of privatized public sewage and water delivery systems that has had many allegedly disturbing policies and practices around the world.
These far reaching important decisions that will affect all of us in Sechelt for many years deserve to be properly debated in the public forum before quick and final choices are made.
Neil Edmunds, Sechelt
