To the Editor,
Re: Continued growth comes at a price, Saturday Beat, Feb. 4.
You’re darn tootin’ it does and good for you reminding everyone of that undeniable fact.
I often think of the human body and how, if it continually grew in girth, how messy it would be when it eventually exploded.
The outlying rural communities have been warning both the City of Nanaimo and the Regional District of Nanaimo for years just how serious the consequences of unrestricted and continual growth are on the water resources alone within our areas.
Those who actually live on the land know what is going on, but we are not considered ‘stakeholders’, only a nuisance factor.
The City of Nanaimo does not own its own watershed. A logging company does.
Therefore, why is the city putting the cart before the horse? How about actually owning Nanaimo’s watershed before the pie-in-the-sky mentality of pouring taxpayers dollars endlessly into something it doesn’t even own?
The green-wash spewing from municipal and regional district mouthings emphatically prove they have no idea what sustainability means.
It’s so simple. Maybe too simple to get their heads around – the ability to sustain.
Rita Dawson
North Oyster