Originally posted on Mastodon June 7, 2024. Sent to the National Post and Suncor (info@suncor.com) June 8, 2024. (this letter is more than 200 words… but so be it) Dear Editor, “Not one less lemming will jump off the cliff if we don’t also jump off the cliff”, so said the millionaire chief of the …
Category Archives: Environment
Axe the Fossil Fuels
(This letter was sent April 2, 2024 and published in the April 10 issue) Dear Editor, Imagine the public reaction today if a party campaigned on “axing the cigarette tax”. We know cigarette companies hid the facts, with the help of politicians, for decades before government finally acted in the best interests of the people dying …
Mosaic Forest Management Only Has Contempt
(Background: “Logging near cemetery a ‘shock’ for Port Alberni residents” Letter Published in March 13, 2024 edition of AV News) Dear Editor, I am not shocked. Mosaic’s (formerly Island Timberlands and Timberwest) recent logging adjacent to the cemetery and Hole in the Wall shows in the worst way that it respects the dead as much …
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