I attended a recent meeting of the Environmental Advisory Committee of the City of St. Albert. It was an open meeting. I would have preferred a meeting of council but that was not available. My purpose was to ask a simple question: “What are the policies and proposed actions of the city regarding climate change?”
Members of the support staff were very courteous to those taxpayers attending, providing seats and offering snacks; and I thank them. The committee and its chairman were not as helpful. We were completely ignored, not introduced, or asked what we had in mind, which I thought was rude. This was not a closed meeting, nor should it have been, so it might have been nice for the chairman to do those things.
Professionally, I have been a climatologist and I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, so I feel qualified to ask the question.
Robert K. Lane, PhD, St. Albert
