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Land-based sewage systems must
become a government priority

Dear Editor:

It was encovraging to hear that
the provincial government is bring-
ing in amendments to the Litter
Act and the Waste Management
.Act which include protection of
the marine environment.

If these amendments are actually .

enforced, we:can perhaps hope for
some improvement in the condi-
tion of our environment.

While most areas of the province

are attempting to. improve their’.

environmental track record,
“Bowen Islanders are faced with the

disheartening news that construc- -

tion of a primary treatment —
other. words ‘no treatment’
ocean outfall from Snug Cove is
due to start shortly. -

The cost of this project will be
paid for by a provincial govern-
ment grant. Secondary treatment

would have cost anywhere from
$50,000 to $500,000.

We are also being faced with
pressure to have a three-lane ferry
marshalling and parking project
through Crippen Park. This pro-
ject will cost in the region of
$500,000, and word has it that the
highways ministry is willing to
come up with funding.

Many wonder why our elected
officials have spent so much
energy in successfully lobbying one
government ministry to fund a

‘blacktopping project which is not

essential. Yet those same peopie
have never put pressure on any
government agency to fund an en-
vironmentally-sound: sewage

_ system.

‘At the same time, our federal
MP, Mary Collins, has magically
been able to produce $1! million

dollars of taxpayers’ money for a
private developer to dredge out
environmentally-sensitive tidal
flats. This is the same Mary Col-
lins who so movingly stated in her
campaign literature that “‘steward-
ship of our precious environment”
was one of the priorities of her

| government.

If any level of government
seriously wishes to protect our
marine environment, the produc-
tion and installation of safe land-
based sewage systems must become
a priority. One of the first steps
that could be taken to promote
marine protection would be the
banning of primary treatment
ccean outfails along the coast of
B.C.

Cherry Budzinski
Bowen Island

Teenagers should ‘curb sexual desires’

"Dear Editor:
‘ The unanimous ‘‘yes’? to the

‘Inquiring Reporter’s question on .

‘Sunday, ‘aly 9, 9, “Should there be
“school condom machines?”’, is
very disturbing. |
-, Using. the same rationale that
young people are going to have sex
no matter what we say, maybe we
‘should also install machines which
. dispeuse drugs, alcohol and por-
nographic magazines, since most
teenagers, we are told, enjoy the
before-mentioned.

Surely it is time that we re-
taught that each individual is

responsible for his own actions and
re-actions — no one else. Engage
in promiscuity and suffer the

results.

If a school board takes on this,
the student’s responsibility, it will
surely be held accountable for the
results nine months or years down
the road, (the courts arriving at
some insane decisions these days),
when students claim the condoms
were faulty and a pregnancy, VD
or AIDS has resulted. Can you
imagine the spiralling of our taxes
in such cases?

Let’s tell our young that

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