LWMP Process is flawed
Letter by Fred von Ilberg to the Sooke News Mirror, March 12, 2003
Editor:
I have taken the unusual step of writing to George Abbott, the Minister of Community, Aboriginal and Women’s Services with some reluctance since it is my sincere desire that the ministry can greatly assist in judiciously evaluating the sewage and Liquid Waste Management proposals by the District of Sooke.
I attended the information meeting on Feb. 6 and must state that I am deeply disappointed with the process on various fronts. I am profoundly perturbed, specifically, that the public advisory committee as well as the technical advisory committee have not met nor have been called to working meetings since their inception on Dec. 18, 2002 at an inaugural information meeting.
Since then a flawed technical report has been presented at the public meeting, the inadequacies of which were highlighted by Dr. D. Forgie, presenter, in his presentation. I questioned the procedure of the creation of the PAC and TACs and stated publicly that they would appear to be nothing but windowdressing — how painfully true.
The proposed district’s agenda now leaves little, if any, room for meaningful considerations and rationales of the multitude of tasks confronting this hastily assembled project for sewage and Liquid Waste Management.
Parts of Sooke will benefit from sewering, and I am not against a reasoned and well-planned approach, with public input, to this project, but it is the ill-executed process of ramrodding through a proposal just in order to garner grant funds which is so upsetting.
This project demands proper re-evaluation of stages one and two for both sewer and Liquid Waste Management.
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