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 …
Tag Archives: Climate Change
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 …
Protector or Liability
Dear Editor, (sent October 23, 2023 – Published AV News – Nov 29, 2023) The City of Port Alberni owns the former Somass Mill site and most of the land between Catalyst Paper and the Harbour Quay, including Dry Creek (aka Owatchet Creek). According to an author of a recent study in the journal Nature, …