Ah yes, lovely Victoria, where the soft carcinogenic-laced ocean breezes wafting from the multi-daily cruise ships have been sorely missed.

But the CEO of our not-for-profit public harbour authority tells his nearest neighbours that pollution-reducing power plug-ins for visiting ships will have to wait until the polluters return to provide the revenues for the job. Ah, the crazy logic of it all.

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If GVHA is tired of criticism and complaint from those neighbours, one solution seems obvious B次元官网网址� let us breathe.

Ulla Ressner and John Fry

Victoria