The Editor,
Re. “Streamkeepers disturbed at request to move creek to make way for house” (The Tri-City News, Aug. 10).
I hope other citizens are as outraged as I am by the fact that a rich person can get different levels of government to possibly allow him to build a monstrosity on top of Maple Creek. This is setting an ugly precedent that could have far-reaching damage to our delicate salmon industry and it is demonstrating a total disregard for future generations’ birthright.
I am not surprised by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, which has always displayed a total disregard and ineptness when it comes to protecting the West Coast. And I am not totally surprised by approval given by the Kwikwetlem First Nation.
If Port Coquitlam council gives approval to this indignity, however, it would be the most disappointing act of all.
It is terribly sad that 20 years of hard work by the volunteers of the Maple Creek Streamkeepers to improve and enhance the habitat for coho salmon and cutthroat trout could be wiped out by the hedonistic plans of one family. Shame on those responsible if this ugly proposition comes to fruition.
Neil Swanson, Coquitlam
