RE: ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES EDITORIAL Thanks 'coalbad', it's always good to hear something from the opposition. BTW, I like your moniker. lol
If anyone wants to read, or get informed and not mis-informed, I think that a very good website can be found at https://www.theravenproject.ca and you can also read about the 10 Things to Know about the Raven Project at https://www.theravenproject.ca/all_files/top_ten_things_you_need_to_know_about_Raven.pdf .
There is lots of mis-information out there, but in the end CEC needs to abide by the EA process guidelines and those guidelines have been long in the making, and it contains input from residents and environmentalists that are apposed.
It's one thing to be opposed to something, but it's another to bring forward a reasonable concern as to why. If concerns are met with a logical solutions, then it's not right to stop progress just because a group feels it should be stopped.
The developmental world just doesn't work that way. atb