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Treatment foes go on offensive against project Group calling for science-based decision-making launches salvo Daniel Palmer News staff
The Capital Regional District should request an exemption to new federal regulations that require it to build a sewage treatment system, says an opponent of the project. The Association for Responsible and Environmentally Sustainable Sewage Treatment (ARESST) believes the current system of pumping screened sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca is safe and effective. The group held a press conference at Clover Point on Monday and called on the CRD to refuse to begin construction unless an environmental impact assessment can prove the current system is causing harm. “What annoys scientists is when people pretend to be doing things for scientific reasons when they’re not,” said prof. Chris Garrett of the University of Victoria’s Earth and Ocean Sciences Department. The federal government’s Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations were announced last week and require all municipalities to meet a threshold for sewage treatment. They estimate 25 per cent of municipalities across the country will require sewage treatment upgrades to comply. Former federal environment minister David Anderson said the regulations are too broad and need to be adjusted for regions like Greater Victoria that treat their sewage by alternative means. “If the federal government decided to have the same snow-removal requirements for Victoria as in Quebec, we would call that ridiculous,” he said. But CRD board chair Geoff Young said the regulations are “here to stay” and the region has no plans to apply for an exemption. Any delay could also risk losing the combined $500-million promised from higher levels of government for the project, he said. “It is very clear through new regulations that the discharge of raw sewage is not going to be something that the governments are prepared to accept.” dpalmer@vicnews.com
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Vic West may shift to new riding Proposed riding boundary change raises eyebrows Roszan Holmen News staff
If proposed changes to federal electoral districts proceed, MP Denise Savoie will not live in her own riding. She, along with all other residents of
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Victoria West, will be carved off into a new riding comprising Esquimalt and much of the West Shore. “Unfortunately, the proposed boundaries do not reflect the geographic realities of southern Vancouver Island,” Savoie wrote in a prepared statement. “(They) are drawn in a way that will divide communities.” The Esquimalt-Colwood riding would include Esquimalt, Highlands and View Royal, and portions of Victoria, Langford, Colwood and Saanich.
“Whereas up until now, all these communities belonged to the same riding as much as possible, they are being divided in an almost haphazard way.” Victoria city council is also concerned. On Thursday it passed a motion by Coun. Lisa Helps, Vic West liaison, that Mayor Dean Fortin make a submission on behalf of the city during an upcoming public hearing. PLEASE SEE: Input sought, Page A10
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