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Disastrous decisions will have to be changed

Editor: Re: Metro faces challenge trying to find home for incinerator, Community Comment, Aug. 10 Thanks to Sylvia Bishop for the excellent column on Metro Vancouver's waste management decision.

Editor:

Re: Metro faces challenge trying to find home for incinerator, Community Comment, Aug. 10

Thanks to Sylvia Bishop for the excellent column on Metro Vancouver's waste management decision.

I attended a consultation session run by Metro some months ago. Many studies with the usual graphs were presented by staff and members of the audience were permitted to comment. There was little support in the audience for incineration as I remember it and I have heard it was similar to other consultation sessions in the region.

A learned professor, whose name escapes me for now, pointed out to staff the studies they had presented showed categorically the safest method of waste management is anaerobic digesting, in every way except one: start-up cost.

Metro's subsequent decision to proceed with plans for incineration plants shows how well it listened. Is revenue for Metro Vancouver more important than our health?

Fraser Health Authority's surface look at our region's health statistics fails to speak out on the role of diesel emissions on asthma and childhood lung development for one. How will a healthy food zone around a school compensate for the effects of a highway running past it?

We will have to change these disastrous decisions of government by replacing the perpetrators with those who clearly have more common sense.

Wilma Haig