Opinion

TheReview Wednesday, February 5, 1992 — A8

Continued from Page A6

Loaded dice

Editor:

The recent decision by the B.C
Court of Appeal-to reduce the
prison sentence of three drivers
convicted of killing or maiming
others prompted a flood of protest
calls to our Victoria office.

MADD Victoria and its suppor-
ters wish to note that this is no
time for lenience. There are no
second chances when loved ones
are killed by drinking drivers. And,
the killing is no mere “roll of the
dice,’ it is a product of several
faulty decisions on the part of
drinking drivers.

When the driver is loaded the
dice are too; and in this game,
where the stakes are so high, the
penalties imposed by law must
serve aS a deterrent.

(Mrs.) Louise French

President

MAAD Victoria

Competency
was questioned

Editor:

On January 20 council of the
municipality of Central Saanich
made the decision that the heritage
aspects of Tod Inlet area are to be
investigate before the present lan-
downer, Fama Holdings, can pro-
ceed with development.

Minutes earlier, the Tod Inlet
Preservation committee of the Cit-
izens Association to Save The
Environment proposed such a
study to be conducted by us under
the auspices of the B.C. Heritage
Trust.

Our presentation was specific,
detailed and quite comprehensive
as C.A.S.E. has already compiled

over a year’s worth of study on the”

area of Tod Inlet at our own
expense.

Council questioned the compe-
tency of this study even though
contributors included Grant
Keddy, archaeologist, Dr. Richard
Hebda, botanist of the Royal B.C.
Museum and Bob Gniffin, also of
the Royal B.C. Museum, with a
very detailed letter of support and
myself, a museumologist.

Another of council’s apparent
refusal of our proposal was one of
the economics; that it would be
taxpayers’ money used to pay for
the study. If council had done their
homework, they would have real-
ized that the Heritage Trust is

funded by the B.C. Lottery Cor-
poration — monies willingly
given by the public.

They would have also realized
that the $20,000 budget for our
study is one-third to one-quarter of
what if would cost to have the very
same study conducted by the
municipality of Central Saanich or
a commercial enterprise. This
would definitely entail the use of
taxpayers’ money and whatever
research would be done would
only be a duplicate of our very
own research. C.A.S.E. only solic-
ited the moral support of Central
Saanich and no monies from them,

There is an expression being
bantered around by today’s gener-
ation, “Stop making sense.” How
appropriate when it comes to deci-
sions made by some of our munic-
ipal councils.

Sandra FE. Hewton

Citizens Association to

Save the Environment

This is sharing?
Editor:

The “Share the Forest’” groups
would have the public believe that
all they want is to be fair and
reasonable. The preservationists
would tum Vancouver Island into a
damn park.

In fact, if the forest companies
had truly shared, we wouldn’t be
in the predicament that we are. We
are fighting over the last bones left
from a feast.

Example: On the west coast of
Vancouver Island there are: 146
primary watersheds larger than
1,000 hectares, 25 remain undeve-
loped, of which nine are scheduled
for development within five years,
10 are scheduled for development
within five to 20 years, and six are
protected from development.

On the east coast of Vancouver
Island there are: 53 primary wat-
ersheds larger than 1,000 hectares,

four remain undeveloped and two -

of these are scheduled for develop-
ment within five years, two are
scheduled for development within
five to 20 years.

There are no primary watersheds
larger than 1,000 hectares that are
protected from development.
(From Undeveloped Watersheds on
Vancouver Island Larger than
1,000 Hectares, John Wilkinson,
Integrated Resources Branch, Min-
istry of Forests, August 1990, P.7)

This is sharing?

Jim Pine

Victoria

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