Two more pieces on the Echo website on the continuing saga of council's great soliloquy "To pipeline or not to pipeline, that is the question...

• Council continues to wrestle tells the story of the March 22nd council, the calls for a referendum and for severing ties with Power Budd; Carl Noble cautioned that, like dogs, federal funding agents might smell 'fear' in any signs that people were actually thinking about what they would do with all that money.
• Robbie Robinson calls for action, citing some referendum I'd never seen, but nonetheless Robbie thinks, as many pipers do, it's been enough of the thinking already, and that this is simply and purely a choice of sewers now or a cesspool damnation.

I'll let you read Keith Gilbert's items to get the full gist of it all, but what really gets me in all of this is the black/whiteness of it, as if it's the product of people who've spent too many years facing Windows dialog box "Do you wish to proceed Y/N" choices.

There's some mention of a council resolve to procede to draft engineering plans to deploy the aquaducts on first hint of funding, but zero, zip, nada a mention of "and in the meantime, let's investigate some of those ideas to help our neighbours clean out the really hotspot risk sites ...". Narry a whisper, not from Robbie R or Mayor Carl or nobody.

Seems the pipers are fixed on it like a pit bull: the end is neigh and only the proposed centralized pipeline and sewer can save us all, and all the engineering and political positioning aside, just looking at the tenacity of the single optionedness, well, if you ask me, that's starting to sound just a little like some kind of UFO cult ...