Letter to the Editor: Give Bruce Simmons a Hello!

Congrats to all graduates! Best of luck in your endeavours but never forget your roots and cherish them!

I can’t believe Oyen area residents agreed to have wind turbines. You think your electricity bills are high now? Wait till these monstrosities are in place: not only will costs be higher, you’ll be lucky to have a constant power source. Besides killing off birds (how eco-friendly is that?) and the inability to recycle the arms so they are dumped in graveyards with solar panels (the poles are made of steel in coal-fired plants & can be recycled at cost), the low-density sound - reverberations? - are detrimental to many people’s and farm animals’ equilibrium & health. It’s like feeling the thump thump from a techno party miles away. Then you wonder why your wife is crankier than usual, your dog snarls and your steers aren’t eating. The chickens aren’t laying eggs & something’s just not right. Then, in the mega-sub-zero Prairie winters, the blades will need de-icing and will probably just stop working. Got your wood stoves stoked?

I applaud work on green tech, but we are NOT there yet. We need oil & gas for energy.

On a nicer note, love getting the Oyen Echo every week. I read about the families from the Valley area and smile, coz I recognize so many names, even tho they likely don’t know me from Adam. Meh, just give Bruce Simmons a Hello! and tell him his cousin is crazy. Not news to him.

And thanks to Joan Janzen for weekly sense.

Mary Ruth Olson
New Westminster, BC