XPost: bc.politics, van.general, vic.general   
   From: Çons®@minority#s   
      
   Just as they have done for years.  The share of federal monies have finally   
   been allocated   
   as of last week.  And now that damnable group called "ARESST" is back in   
   action again.  It   
   is almost wholly made up of rightwing cronies who have properties in the Oak   
   Bay area, a   
   very upscale part of the city, or interest in properties in another water's   
   edge   
   neighbourhood.   
      
   And British Columbians are wondering why it's taken over 7 years to get this   
   damned thing   
   started and raw sewage kept out of our beaches and coastal waters?   
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   Posted: Jul 23, 2012   
      
   Victoria advocacy group fights secondary sewage treatment   
      
   A group of scientists and former medical health officers say they plan to   
   fight a proposal   
   to build a $780 million secondary sewage treatment plant for Greater Victoria.   
   The Association for Responsible and Environmentally Sustainable Sewage   
   Treatment (ARESST)   
   claims there is no scientific proof dumping screened and diluted sewage into   
   fast-flowing   
   ocean currents has any negative effects on the environment.   
      
   ARESST spokesperson Elizabeth Woodward says the decision to build the   
   secondary treatment   
   and a biosolids energy recovery plant is purely political.   
      
   "We're going to announce the launch of a public campaign in which Victorians   
   can easily   
   become involved in registering their opinion," she told CBC News.   
      
   Last week, the federal government announced it would contribute about $253   
   million toward   
   the cost of building a wastewater treatment plant in Esquimalt along with a   
   second   
   biosolids plant at the Hartland Landfill, which will convert solid waste into   
   energy.   
      
   Woodward says taxpayers shouldn't count on federal or provincial government   
   promises to   
   help fund the project.   
      
   "If we start putting shovels in the ground now or in early 2013, and the Feds   
   still   
   haven't passed Treasury Board and the province won't pay until the deed is   
   done, we could   
   really be in a big problem here."   
      
   ARESST believes most citizens don't want to see taxes increase to help fund a   
   project   
   whose benefits have yet to be proven.   
      
   The group is hoping politicians may be willing to reverse their decision if   
   enough   
   residents join the cause.   
      
      
      
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