Editor:

Did you know that each proposed B.C. garbage incinerator will pollute as much as the defeated SE2 power plant? There was considerable government opposition in the courts to SE2 but Premier Campbell's government is now saying that incineration is 'green energy'?

Here are some pieces of a puzzle that you can piece together. SE2 was to be a merchant power plant selling electricity on the spot market. BC Transmission Co is installing transmission lines through Tsawwassen to Vancouver island and into Washington State. All of the planned 'green energy' plants: Incineration, Run Of The River and Wind Power (the only green) will be tied to the power transmission lines grid. As the BC Utilities Commission has just ruled, "we don't need all of this power" so where is it going? To the USA?

A number of ex-B.C. bureaucrats and ex-MLA's, including former Attorney General Geoff Plant, are now involved in some way with these power companies.

In brief: Our government protested the pollution of SE2 but approves 'green power' alternatives that will pollute this valley by up to at least six times.

There is a not so new phenomenon first recorded in 1885 that is now being studied by NASA as it is growing. The phenomenon is 'Noctilucent Clouds' which are ice crystals formed around minute dust particles very high up in the atmosphere. They usually appear after sunset and look like the Aurora Borealis; photos are viewable on the internet. Could this spectacle be our view of the blanket of pollution that will eventually smother the planet?

Premier Campbell has declared that the ruling of BC Utilities Commission is a rebuke of his 'Green Energy' plan through power privatization, but could it be that this said rebuke has merely peeled back the green, bringing something very dark to light?

Gary Huntbatch, Abbotsford