In this day and age, when there is more need for buildings than buildings available, it would seem odd that this government would support the demolition of useful buildings.
On Feb 7, the 18-year-old Seven Sisters building in Terrace, built in 2006, was demolished and for the next 10 days was hauled truckload after truckload to the local landfill site. Very little of the building or its contents were saved for re-use.
The almost 10-million-dollar facility was replaced with a much more expensive building on another corner of the site. Despite pleas from Skeena Valley Seniors Society and several Northern Health staff to have the Seven Sisters building left intact and re-purposed for Northern Health’s unmet needs, the building was trashed.
While government claims to be concerned about carbon emissions and wasted resources, it thinks nothing about running excavators for 100-plus hours and filling nearly 100 trash bins to be trucked countless kilometres to the local landfill.
Meanwhile, our government is spewing out recommendations to offset our carbon footprint and charging taxpayers millions to address this problem while in fact being the cause of the problem by wasting taxpayer resources over and over and over again.
No ears to taxpayer concerns, no willingness to engage with the public, no accountability for their counter intuitive actions which we the taxpayer would never be permitted to do ourselves.
An even bigger facility will soon face the same fate as the 1961 Mills Memorial Hospital is also to be trashed in the near future, despite the 2000-plus petitioners calling for the re-purposing of this $100 million building.
Diana Penner
Terrace
