Save Kamloops BC Canada
A provincial government that respected community interests would have engaged in real consultation with Kamloops City Council prior to committing $1.5 million of taxpayers’ money through the Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund to the Aboriginal Co-Generation
Gasifier plant is “unacceptable”
Corporation (ACC). That’s not to mention the fact that our federal government has actually paid ACC some $2.7 million through Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) – out of a total commitment of $8.3 million – without any prior consultation with Kamloops (www.sdtc.ca Round 12-2007B; announced July 28, 2008). In both cases, senior levels of government have made it impossible for those we elected to represent our community interests and aspirations—our city councilors—to speak out on our behalf. Consultation doesn’t mean informing us of what has already been decided; it means discussing and often negotiating mutually agreeable solutions.
There are few if any good places in the world to build a creosote gasification plant, and Kamloops certainly isn’t one of them.
That was the message a pair of university professors delivered to more than 250 people Sunday afternoon at a public forum addressing health issues related to a gasification project in the city.
It was received with thunderous applause from the crowd, many of whom attended a related rally and march from city hall to Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake’s office the day before.
“This is unacceptable and should not be tolerated,” Douw Steyn of the University of B.C. said of the gasification project.
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