Dear Editor:
Regrettably, our new NDP government has decided to build Site C, in spite of the reasons not to, both scientific and otherwise.
In my opinion, it has shown a lack of vision for now and the future.
My first concern about Premier John Horgan’s flip-flopping on the issue was that the LNG industry, if approved, needed a lot of cheap energy. Guess what? Our premier is now on his way to Asia, promoting LNG, which he was so critical of during the election campaign.
The rationale for completing Site C uses the Liberal party and money already spent as a scapegoat, at the expense of economics, the environment, and by trampling on the rights of the First Nations people and others.
It’s not that we do not have alternatives. We have examples of another way. Germany, for example, already draws 30 per cent of its power from renewable, sustainable resources in solar, wind and geothermal and, in the process, has created 400,000 new jobs.
In concern for Mother Earth, Henry Thoreau said, over 150 years ago that concern and attention to the natural environment confronted the root of all political evil.
I had hoped that more enlightened people understood that you cannot negotiate with Mother Nature. To do so is to live in a fool’s paradise.
William Zander is a New Westminster resident
