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Coal mine stance clarified

Dear editor, Let me clarify my stance on coal mine versus no coal mine.

Dear editor,

Let me clarify my stance on coal mine versus no coal mine.

It is only the decision to look at and try alternative energy that I am asking we "emulate." And that Germany realized they should not dig another coal mine was the brilliance!

And who said it would be easy? And perhaps not the best example, as Nina Usherwood so eloquently refuted in her letter to the editor (Record, March 25).

However, I would gladly take a wind turbine, solar panels, water turbines, french fry oil-driven vehicles, human-powered generators and cow-powered harvested methane and all the good old rapeseed and GMO you can plant in my backyard, and add a nuclear reactor and another hydroelectric dam on a seismically unstable fault line, than have one more coal mine!

And that truly is about the only thing I do not want in my backyard.

A NIMBY I have never been up until now with this specific coal mine proposal.

The issue is not your argument or response to my letter, all of which can be easily argued ad nauseum utilizing the very same references cited, Miss Usherwood.

The issue is simply let us look at alternatives, whatever they may be, just a moment longer, before we dig another coal hole. Because we do have the science and engineering that tells us it is not the best idea for this area and our decisions must be based on a greater conscience than what the pocketbook is dictating.

Heather Carr,

Comox Valley