Editor:
Re: KTW’s March 1 story on the Kruger pulp mill (‘Fibre needed to keep mill going’):
Thomas Hoffman of Kruger is careful to note the pulp mill produces what he calls “green” power and jobs to attempt to legitimize the mill’s existence in our city.
I hope most of Kamloops citizens realize this is greenwashing. There is nothing green about burning wood to make electricity and pumping out pollutants.
Take a look at the particulates belching out of the stack any time you are driving into the city from the north. Wait and see what happens when the fibre runs out and Kruger becomes nothing but a “green” electricity producer, burning whatever waste wood it can get its hands on as the company continues to tell us what a valuable service it is providing to all of us in the valley.
Don Ferguson
Kamloops
