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Originally Posted by ExiledFlamesFan

This post incredible. Are you drunk?

Dumping raw untreated human waste into the ocean is despicable no matter how you frame it. And it does not cost a billion dollars to treat waste.

You have no clue.

http://www.rstv.ca/is-victoria-dumping-raw-sewage/

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07...-sewage-plant/

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11...adian-history/

David Anderson, a former federal environment minister whose Oak Bay home plugs into Victoria’s outfall system, was even blunter. In a 2012 public letter, he called the nine-figure project a pandering testament to “how far this country has moved [from] science-based public policy.”

A Victoria sewage plant would be the “largest boondoggle in Canadian history,” Keith Martin, then a Victoria-area MP, told the House of Commons in 2009.

A physician by training, Mr. Martin is no slouch on environmental causes.

In Parliament he founded the All Party International Conservation Caucus. He spent his weekends campaigning to preserve old-growth forest, and he even wrote editorials pleading for the health of the world’s oceans.

“Our oceans are dying, and without life in our oceans, life on land will perish,” he wrote in a 2010 article for the Hill Times.
But Victoria’s sewage plant was different. As Mr. Martin told the House, Victoria’s system worked just fine, federal regulators were misinformed, and by forcing the city to build a secondary treatment facility, an ignorant federal government was forcing Victorians to pipe their sewage through an “irresponsible” menagerie of pointless structures.

Shame and embarrassment about our present sewage treatment system are words used often by organizations seeking to exploit natural concerns for our environment, even to the extent that some politicians have been parroting these same words. However, that is not a sound reason to discard our satisfactory sewage treatment system in favour of an unknown leap into an embarrassing morass of financial burdens, with no measurable improvements in our environment. That would be shameful, indeed!

What has been missing is enough public awareness of the effectiveness of the current deep sea outfalls. Currently the Victoria Core Area sewage (which is really 99.93% water and very little actual solids), is discharged from two deep ocean outfalls more than a kilometer from the shore, after first passing through 6 mm screens. There are no “Floaties”.

“It all comes down to the ‘icky factor’; people don’t like the idea of putting poop in the ocean,” said Tom Pedersen, director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. “The truth is, we’re in a very fortunate position here in Victoria in which to discharge sewage into a marine setting.”

Google for more info and learn something instead of beaking off without a clue.