Dear editor,

I read with utter amazement, yet another ludicrous attack on Wayne Procter, the regional district directors and my intelligence regarding the Gas N Go.

Now the suggestion is to buy the property from Mr. Procter and turn it into a park. I know that there is barely any green space here in this concrete jungle we live in called the Comox Valley, so clearly we need more.

The Sierra Club has had its day in court and lost, the people dressed up like ducks have had all the free press they deserve and the elected officials at the regional district have done what they should have done a long time ago — issue a building permit for a project that is legal, will create a few jobs, bring tax revenue into the valley and most importantly, is zoned for.

Suck it up people and move on.

If you are so concerned with the environment, do something about it that helps, not fill the letters to the editor section with an endless stream of half-facts and selective statistics.

I have no idea what the tanker truck that spilled into the Goldstream River has to do with the Dyke Road but I can only assume that was probably Wayne Procter's fault somehow in your mind or it is driving in general that is bad?

I seem to hear that it may have been driver error. I think it was in the news.

If M. Machum is so big on the idea of buying the property from Mr. Procter, put your money where your mouth is. Call him up, give him an offer and move on but don't assume that everyone else is against this project and start giving my money up for me.

I guess that leaves just Wayne and I who are pleased to see this go ahead. And if "hundreds of people got let down" in a Valley where 64,000 plus people live, tough, that's how life works. You don't always get what you want.

And just so that you know, I have no association with Wayne Procter and if the paper had not printed his mugshot in the paper, I would not have known him to trip over him.

Steve Shortridge,

Comox