Open letter to Metro Vancouver (regional district),
My family lived in Richmond for over 25 years and we have kept in touch with friends and neighbours.
In the last four years, the impact from this composting operation has impacted their lives and has bothered me when visiting them and driving north and south on Highway 99, pending wind direction.
The smell has progressively been getting worse, the history of this operator has been less than a good corporate citizen, the intensity of the odour has been relentless and needs to be controlled.
This facility cannot be allowed to continue polluting the air for the benefit of a large corporation that is not even a Canadian company.
I strongly disagree with Metro Vancouver allowing this company to continue to release air contaminants into our air shed.
This company should first and foremost have to reduce the amount of product coming to their facility, or purchase new technology that will contain these emissions.
If Metro Vancouver holds other air quality permit holders to a higher standard, then Harvest Power needs to follow with no special treatment.
Don and Joan Markland
Richmond
