Opinion

Editor: First off, let me offer a sincere kudos to the mayor and council for their delivered promise of a state-of-the-art sewage treatment plant, which will bring much deserved recognition and attention to the Sunshine Coast.

Editor: Thank you John Gleeson for your insightful column (Coast Reporter, Feb. 15) about fracking. It was refreshing to see something in the print media about how the oil industry controlled the Alberta election.

Editor: It is thrilling that Sechelt council has fulfilled its election promises to begin building a state-of-the-art, odourless and green waste water treatment plant. They deserve big kudos for the work that they put into this project.

Editor: Why did Sechelt mayor and council hold complete in-camera meetings for the design and selection of contractors, for this project without holding public meetings? Why spend money to build facilities to demonstrate new technologies andcreate a

Editor: There is a fawn grazing on the mowed lawn, a little girl standing in awe of the technology behind the picture window, an elderly couple chatting about the pleasant ambiance and ravens circling above - it's all there, in the picture that accom

Editor: I would have so liked to give credit to the Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) for their decision to donate $22,000 to the trail strategy initiative (Coast Reporter, Feb. 1, "Society to complete trail strategy").

Editor: I love my country, but fear my government. Is anyone concerned that Stephen Harper is sticking our nose into Mali? I thought we were supposed to be a peace-keeping country? Well, we are not.

Editor: Once again our member of Parliament John Weston is wasting our tax dollars with a new 14-page political advertiser.

Editor: Thanks for Jan Degrass' Friends of the Gallery review (Coast Reporter, Feb. 1).

B.C. is already in bed with the oil and gas industry and now the Liberal government wants us to make babies and grow old together.