ACTIONS:
- Sign: petition to demand review of CRD sewage plan
- How it went - Volunteer action!
- Send: in your letters!
CRD SEWAGE NEWS
Audio-video:
- Mayor Hill of View Royal Presents to Esquimalt hearing
- Poll prediction
- The RITE Plan's Youtube Channel
News stories:
- FOCUS: Breaking down democracy, one meeting at a time
- Chamber of Commerce Letter to Esquimalt
LETTERS
- Re: A pivotal moment (MacDonald)
- Re: A pivotal moment (Knock)
- Re: A pivotal moment (Maler)
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EVENTS AND ACTIONS:
Sign petition to demand review of CRD sewage plan
The communities have created a petition that we are sponsoring:
http://sewagepetition.ca/
Every signature will be presented in the Legislature by local MLAs.
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How it went - Volunteer Action!
Volunteers at The RITE Plan table Esquimalt Centre
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SEND IN YOUR LETTERS!
CRD SEWAGE NEWS
Audio-visual news:
Mayor Hill of View Royal Presents to Esquimalt hearing.
March 22, 2014 McLoughlin Public Hearing hears from Graham Hill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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News stories:
FOCUS: Breaking down democracy, one meeting at a time
The April edition of Focus Magazine is out and there is another sewage article:
http://focusonline.ca/?q=node%
"Awarding of a CRD sewage treatment project contract to Stantec that turned out to be worth $43 million was overseen by two former Stantec employees."
Full Ediition as PDF:
http://focusonline.ca/sites/
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Poll prediction
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From reading Chamber of Commerce bleat below, its obvious that Chamber agenda will be to transfer more sewage fee burden from business sector to residents. However, their press release comes after public comment period so Esquimalt Council will just ignore such a rant.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 27, 2014
Chamber of Commerce: Open Letter to Mayor and Council of the Township of Esquimalt
Re: Sewage Treatment CRD
Mayor and Council,
The Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce (The Chamber) appreciates the process that Esquimalt Council has taken to exercise its duties regarding the rezoning of McLoughlin Point. The process has been comprehensive and may have gone far beyond what is necessary considering the current zoning permits a wastewater treatment facility.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.victoriachamber.ca/
March 27, 2014
Chamber of Commerce: Open Letter to Mayor and Council of the Township of Esquimalt
Re: Sewage Treatment CRD
Mayor and Council,
The Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce (The Chamber) appreciates the process that Esquimalt Council has taken to exercise its duties regarding the rezoning of McLoughlin Point. The process has been comprehensive and may have gone far beyond what is necessary considering the current zoning permits a wastewater treatment facility.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.victoriachamber.ca/
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LETTERS
Re: A pivotal moment (MacDonald)
FOCUS
FOCUS
April 2014
Many thanks to Focus for continuing to cover the sewage issue. Shameful that our CRD directors can’t get off the rock often enough to learn that land-based communities simply pick up the phone and order an out of the box tertiary system when needed, and not fumble about for almost a decade spending tens of millions of dollars to choose an antiquated technology that will not meet the evolving complexity of our waste.
READ MORE: http://focusonline.ca/?q=node%
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Re: A pivotal moment (Knock)
I enjoyed reading your letter on this perennial topic. Hard to realize there was a time when sewage treatment was not a general topic of discussion. As a retired designer of systems, structures, and processes to make our lives better, I have followed the events with interest, challenge, frustration, resignation and finally bemusement. The lowest common denominator appears to be winning again.
READ MORE: http://focusonline.ca/?q=node%
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FOCUS
April 2014
READ MORE: http://focusonline.ca/?q=node%
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Re: A pivotal moment (Maler)
FOCUS
April 2014
As you are probably aware, there is much wrong with the CRD’s plan and the first two days of pubic hearings on the rezoning brought a lot of legitimate concerns of the public to the forefront and resulted in a list of missing information that the Esquimalt council needs in its deliberations in making a decision on April 7.
READ MORE: http://focusonline.ca/?q=node%
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