Editor: Re: Time to clean up the protest camp, Burnaby NOW, Letters, July 4.
I and many like-minded neighbours resent Yonie Cheung speaking on behalf of the residents of the Forest Grove neighbourhood against the “inconvenience” of the protest camp outside the Kinder Morgan Burnaby Mountain site.
But resentment has turned to bemused head-shaking at this impassioned condemnation of a temporary site built for an environmental cause. Has Cheung never once seen the tank “farm” and the pipelines all across Burnaby Mountain as an eyesore? Or a potential fire storm? Or even a doomed reliance on fossil fuels? Or (likely paramount) as a lowering of their precious property values? Out of sight behind a few trees and out of mind, I guess.
As another longtime resident, I and many others I’ve spoken to respect and admire the dedication of the protesters. So grateful that these days, with so many other issues calling me to a protest march, these few souls are taking on Kinder Morgan and the Trudeau government on my behalf.
Janis Rutherford, Burnaby
