With Catalyst Paper continuing to challenge coastal communities – including Campbell River – in court over its taxes, Powell River is intending to lower Catalyst’s taxes by paying the mill to treat the city’s sewage.
Handing over an essential service to a corporation that repeatedly threatens to close doesn’t sound like a good idea for Powell River.
Other communities, like Campbell River, could also suffer from this scheme.
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