Dear editor,
This is an open letter to John Tapics, president of Compliance Energy Corporation.
This letter is to object to your usurping of the icon image of the Comox glacier in your draft AIR/EIS Guideline document for the proposed Raven coal mine. You have put this image in a logo-type placement next to the Compliance Coal Corporation name on all but three pages of this 257-page report. This usage is an affront to all citizens in the Comox Valley and demonstrates a total lack of respect for what our community holds dear.
You have succeeded in giving the message that, like coal barons of the past, you assume ownership of this Valley just as you claim ownership of a logo. Aside from a picture of a coal seam, to use any image of nature, such as a raven or a bear, misrepresents your corporation鈥檚 business.
Use of such images is nothing but an advertising ploy to benefit your company. More appropriate and accurate images would be extraction equipment, coal stockpiles, sediment ponds, or B-Train trucks, to name a few possibilities.
Once again, Mr. Tapics, you have managed to alienate a community toward which you profess to want to extend good will. If you wish to express any regard or sensitivity to this community, you will immediately stop using the Comox glacier image for your corporate purposes.
Peggy Zimmerman
Courtenay
