Political double speak didn't fool us
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Dear editor,
Your article about Port Hardy council extending the Storey’s Beach sewer hookup deadline provides readers with an excellent example of political doublespeak.
The deadline has been extended one year, said the story, but the deadline has always been one year from completion of the District’s part of the project, so no change there.
The District will give property owners a low pressure pump worth $4500, said the story, but in fact the property owners are being forced to install the pump, take ownership of it and buy future replacements by council motion; so taxpayers paid for the pumps.
A $1,500 grant will help with their costs, but the hookup fee is $1300, so big deal.
The District is committed to extending sewer services to the west side of Beaver Harbour, said the story, but the property in question is native land over which the District has no control.
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada seems in no hurry to upgrade, so I’ll believe it when I see it.
The whole program originated in 2006, so that native elders in Fort Rupert could once again harvest unpolluted bivalve seafood. They are no closer to that objective, while 42 property owners at Storey’s Beach; at a cost of close to 2 million dollars; have again been given a deadline by council to hook up or else.
J. Alan Wickens
Storey’s Beach
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