Editor:
Is it time for Black Press to hire a new Legislative Reporter? After reading Tom Fletcher’s most recent article, I could no longer contain my anger and disappointment at obvious bias towards big oil and gas ploughing through our still rather-pristine landscape.
Tom Fletcher has taken the same old federal government’s stance of ridiculing those who stand up for nature, clean water and soil, and this very planet that we all depend upon, as well as the statistics that support the ever-increasing toxicity of the Alberta Tar Sands Project.
News reporters have the obligation to report unbiased facts, based upon objection observations.
Rather than their own hard-lined positions that do not reflect the great majority of the population’s thoughts and feelings.
Legislative reporters, especially, usually take politicians to task for corruption, secrecy, undemocratic and laws and actions, power and control manipulations, coercion, etc., but Tom Fletcher seems to be part of Harper’s Action Plan to turn northern British Columbia’s greater asset – its natural splendour and defended territory – into an inevitable victim of the devastation left behind by the big oil and gas companies.
It is Tom Fletcher who does not take the time to gather the facts, not the people who care about what it outside their own backyards.
He needs to be replaced by someone who takes the dangerous route being set up for northern British Columbians seriously, just as the people who live here do.
Sincerely,
Dawn Belcourt