I lived and worked in P.G. long ago. I still think of you all.
New industries and jobs grow in every community, however far from cities, with sustainable practice. Energy efficiency retrofit, on-site solar, wind, geothermal, and passive solar construction deliver Earth's free energy along with new skills. Zero waste. Likewise, re-manufacturing recovered resources in each region can raise the productivity of energy and (fast-depleting) materials by four to ten times.
Investment in these climate solutions revitalizes every local economy, its infrastructure and resilience. Mega-projects take workers away from homes and communities and enrich mega-corporate economies instead.
We already don't need Site C. Both Liberal leaders know its purpose is to store water for export to the U.S., part of the long-promoted North American Water and Power Alliance. We would lose the rights to that water under NAFTA. We and our grandchildren would pay interest on $12 billion to global banks for 70 or 100 years, with subsidies and escalating Hydro rates, to destroy the best farmland in the north, and thousands of years of indigenous resource use.
We are paying to give away our commons to the global one per cent. At this critical time, a win for the NDP is also a win for the Greens - and for all of B.C.
Hildegard Bechler,
Langley
