Dear Editor,
Re: “Folks gagging in lung month,” Voices column, Nov. 4.
I strongly appreciate and thank you for your column in Friday’s paper.
You express the same sentiment and frustration that all Richmond residents are experiencing when confronted with the devastating effects of the toxic gases from Harvest Power.
Many residents still do not know what’s causing the smell and many think is just a smell from the farms.
Fortunately, your paper is doing a great service in educating community members, many of whom are unaware of the health risk present in the air we breathe.
It is an irony, ideed.
Yesterday our mayor was in his role as chair of the Zero Waste Council at the annual Zero Waste Conference in Vancouver, while our children had to play soccer, breathing air contaminated by gases from Harvest Power.
I read the Harvest Power appeal (against the permit conditions) and could not believe it. Their intentions are far from their “we are sorry” advertisement from Nov. 2.
Carlos Alfaro
Richmond
