Editor:
Christine Wood's piece on the controversy surrounding the proposed $22.4 million wastewater treatment facility (Coast Reporter, March 8) revealed a point that I find significant and troubling. She points out that the District's request for proposals specified an "innovative" plant that would help the District "be a leader in the area of wastewater treatment."
I don't recall any such proviso ever being brought forward in the six years of public discussion on this project. Public input clearly indicated a desire for a clean, quiet and odourless system delivered at a reasonable cost. It's now apparent that council has imposed its own desire for something much grander and flashier.
I understand completely that having bright new hi-tech things is all very exciting; and that's fine when one is spending one's own money. I'm not at all sure that this cost-be-damned approach is appropriate when spending from the public purse.
Tom Morris, Sechelt
