Editor;

I'm not sure where all the climate change deniers who work for Sun Media live. They don't seem to live in the world I do, or the world that lies outside my door. While Owen Sound residents complain about the cost of running the city, I don't think they realize the increasing cost to the city that is clearly attributed to climate change, nor to the even higher cost that is anticipated in the near future. City sewers, roads and roofs are designed to withstand "normal" weather conditions and not for what are now becoming annual events that were once expected every 100 years. If our city is to plan for the "new" future weather anticipated by climate change, we'd better be ready to spend big dollars to do this.

While Prime Minister Harper pushes for more fossil fuel development in Canada, this very same action is creating a significant increase in costs to the city where we live. I would hope that if the new Owen Sound council wants to help our city maintain control over their future costs, that they severely criticize both Harper and the local media for downplaying this extremely damaging effect, one that will soon create financial havoc for us during the next 50 years. You don't have to believe me. Just ask the local engineers and city staff who must deal with the consequences of this reckless and self serving action by the federal Conservatives, in the name the fossil-fuel industry.

Robert Hope
Owen Sound