We need your help. Our municipal council intends to vote on Nov. 26 on whether to rezone our residential land on Chase Creek and across from residential homes, to allow Pinnacle Pellet to open a factory in the middle of our village.
Our council has been ready to vote on this matter for more than a month, without ever conferring with their counterparts in Williams Lake, where they have a similar plant, and without consultation with residential homeowners, who live on the opposite bank of the creek and are mere metres from the proposed plant.
I recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Williams Lake Tribune, requesting that citizens tell us what it is like having Pinnacle Pellet in their town and letting them know that we were having a public hearing on Nov. 12. It was published on Nov. 13.
I made a point of sending a very neutral letter. Since then, I have received letters from nine Williams Lake residents.
A tenth is in the midst of writing from a trucker’s point of view.
I am in awe of their generosity in writing to share with us their experience of this plant and their desire to save us from their fate.
All are adamant that putting a pellet plant within our village is a terrible idea. Most support industry if it is kept well away from people and homes.
I am happy to share these letters. Our council, however, will not receive or read them – “out of fairness” because they arrived after our Public Hearing.
In the face of the World Health Organization report on the highly carcinogenic effects of fine wood dust particulate on humans (I have provided that report to council) and the alarming information contained in these letters.
I am terrified for our village and our health. If you can help us, please do.
Time is running out.
Jocelyn Nash
