Saturday's letters: B.C. ignores its own environmental disasters

I find it highly hypocritical and one-sided that the British Columbia government fights so hard against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion but does not clean up its own backyard.
I urge your readers to look at the satellite images of the Sparwood and Elkford areas of southeastern B.C. They will see the devastation caused by open-pit coal mining in this area is equal to, if not greater than, that caused by the oilsands.
The remediation efforts there are much less active and effective than