Following is a guest post from an articulate reader who prefers to remain anonymous.

If unfamiliar with Theatre of the Absurd, in part, it was a movement of playwrights writing to undermine the tyranny of Moscow over Eastern Europe.

Many iron-brained authorities ignored plays like Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”, Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano, Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros”, Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu Roi”, because they were silly. More importantly, perceived by those in control as harmless.

Add to the list, Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Assuming you were young you soon understood that adults in the bureaucracies, their collapsing standards of thought, their beloved biases and batshit decision-making, their insistence on lies, and their complacent self-satisfied corruption helped explain why life already was difficult.

I mention this after reading several of your reports.

That said imagine my surprise when a tiny [harmless] Victoria newspaper undermined 30 years of BC loudly claiming that our Lotus Land authorities are SuperNatural environmental champions.

According to Victoria News the CRD will ask the Canadian government if it’s OK for BC to ignore environmental water protection law … for at least 21 days..  

The Capital Regional District plans to skip secondary treatment during three weeks of maintenance at the Esquimalt sewage treatment plant this spring.

The CRD is seeking regulatory permission for a 21-day sewage bypass of secondary treatment while completing system maintenance on the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The federal government requires cities to provide secondary sewage treatment. 

As the report continues, uncomfortable details emerge…

The McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant can treat 108 megalitres (23.8 million imperial gallons) of wastewater per day to a tertiary level – one of the highest levels of treatment available.

The bypass, expected to be up to 21 continuous days in March and April, will result in effluent with only primary treatment to be sent into the Salish Sea. The CRD will notify the public online.

The numbers? For 21 days, each day nearly 24,000,000 gallons of insufficiently treated wastewater will be dumped into the Salish Sea. How is this good for the Salish Sea? It wasn’t when BC loudly complained about similar pollution from Washington State.

Taxpayer cost to construct the McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant? $301 million.

For $301 million, no one in charge could imagine a system that didn’t require 21 days for routine maintenance?

Who runs the CRD?

The Capital Regional District (CRD) is governed by a 24-member Board of Directors, which serves as a political forum and a vehicle for advancing the interests of the region as a whole. The Board is composed of one or more elected officials from each of the local governments within the CRD’s boundaries…

All members also sit on the Capital Regional Hospital District (CRHD) Board and the Capital Region Housing Corporation (CRHC) Board. Board meetings are held once a month and are open to the public.

Only 24 board members. All politicians! Perfect!

What could possibly go wrong?

Theatre of The Absurd, or not?

Please advise…