Harbour authority wary of McLoughlin sewage plant, B次元官网网址, March 9, 2011.

The Greater Victoria Harbour Authority objects to a sewage plant at McLoughlin Point, but that GVHA letter omitted the environmental concern about this proposed sewage plant that had already been expressed by the Victoria/Esquimalt Harbour Society.

While a sewage plant at the point will be bad for tourism and the harbour economy, it could even be worse for the pointB次元官网网址檚 near-shore marine environment.

However, no environmental impact assessment of the pointB次元官网网址檚 near-shore marine habitat has been done, nor does it appear that any is planned because B.C.B次元官网网址檚 environmental assessment law doesnB次元官网网址檛 apply to sewage plants.

There is little doubt that this expensive, unnecessary sewage plant plunked at McLoughlin Point could create many more environmental, economic and social problems than it would ever solve.

John Newcomb

Saanich