Residents of Lethbridge paid for the new composting plant

By Lethbridge Herald on June 9, 2023.

Editor:

The Herald May 16th Question of the Day yielded some interesting results. 58 per cent of the replies indicated that citizens will not be utilizing the City’s new curbside organics program. 

It would seem to me that the whole program is a failure if less than half of Lethbridge residents are participating. One might also say that over 50 per cent of residents would not have supported the expenditure.

 The facility has cost taxpayers over 10 million dollars to complete. There will be additional ongoing costs to operate the plant with little or no revenue generated by it. Mayor Hyggen recently opened the new compost plant and said: “The most important thing the council looked at was the grant funding received from the federal and provincial government that really put us to the point where we didn’t have to use taxpayer dollars to construct this facility.” 

Does Mayor Hyggen understand that Lethbridge citizens also pay federal and provincial tax? 

Does Mayor Hyggen understand that all cities receive federal and provincial funding for projects like the new compost facility? So, yes Mayor Hyggen, the citizens of Lethbridge have paid to construct the new compost plant, no matter what type of political spin you try to put on it! 

And, it would seem that over half of those citizens did not want it built!

Bart Davies 

Lethbridge