| RECENT EVENTS,
PRESENTATIONS, ETC. |
Letter
to Editor
Nelson Star,
November 26, 2022
Re:
Glade Creek Watershed Reserve and Ecoforesters
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Letter
October 28, 2022
Dangers to Property and Domestic Water Supply
Pollution,
near Town of Avola, B.C.
Immediate
Cancellation of B.C. Timber Sales' Logging
Block and Road Access
Report Attachment: Roddy
Creek and Avola Creek Source Protection
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Media
Release
March 4, 2020
Frackers
Rape Rule of Law and Gag Canadian First
Nations under the Guise of 'Benefit
Agreements': Case in Point, Coastal GasLink
LNG Fracked
Gas Pipeline
(Pdf, 120 kb) |
Submission
January 31, 2020
After
30 Years & More:
Slaughter and Liquidation of BC's Old
Intact Forests
A submission to the Government of British
Columbia's Old Growth Strategic Review |
Report
January 27, 2020
SAY-NO-MORE.
A Reconnaissance Report
of a Tributary Drainage of Convirs Creek, Located
on the Western Slopes of the North Arm of Quesnel
Lake, British Columbia (160 pages)
(Pdf, 43 megabytes)
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Media Release,
October 28, 2019
Attribution
Science Proves Now is the Time for Canadians to
Step Up and Sue the Canadian Association of
Petroleum Producers and the Alberta Energy
Regulator for Cumulative Fraud (Pdf)
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Media Release,
October 2, 2019:
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March 6, 2019
Letter to BC Premier
John Horgan
Legal
Mandate and Fiduciary Obligation of the BC
Government Regarding the Glade Creek Community
Watershed Map Reserve, and Community Watershed
Map and Order-in-Council Reserves (Pdf)
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May 14, 2018
Media Release
Alliance
Calls on Government to End Logging, Road
Building, and Mining Speculation in Peachland
Creek Community Watershed (pdf)
- Letter
to Ministers of Forests and Environment
(pdf)
- Peachland
Watershed Photo Backgrounder Document
(pdf, 25 megabytes)
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January 19, 2018
Report
Submission
Submission to the BC
Government's Review of "Professional Reliance in
Natural Resources"
(Pdf, 1.3 Megabytes)
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November 29, 2017
Public
Notice
BC
Tap Water Alliance No Longer a Signatory for
Public Inquiry of Fracking in BC (with
Backgrounder)
(Pdf, 3 Megabytes)
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May 1, 2017
New Report
(The 2nd Preliminary
Report)
(Pdf, 25 Megabytes)
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February 26, 2017
Media Release
Comparison
of Documents: Mount Polley FOI
(Pdf, 1.4 kilobytes)
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October 10, 2016
Media Release
BC
Government / F.O.I. Stalling on Mount Polley
Mining Corporation Reports
(Pdf, 248 kilobytes) |
August 30, 2016
The Glade
Creek Watershed Reserve: NO "Misnomer" / NOT
"Just a Name"
(Pdf, 11.3 megabytes)
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April 16, 2016
BCTWA Bulletin # 01
BC Ministry of
Environment Cover-Up Continues in Posted
"Community Watershed History"
(Pdf, 5.4 megabytes) |
April 6, 2015
Media Release
Withheld
Documents
Point
to Cause of Mount Polley Tailings Disaster
(pdf)
- Backgrounder
Footnote
Reference
Table (pdf)
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March 15, 2015
New Report
Withholding
Water
Flow
Science in the Wilson Watershed: An
Examination of the Sunshine Coast bCommunity
Forest's Wilson Creek Watershed Assessments
(2010-2012)
(pdf - 28.5 megabytes)
Summary
Report
only
(pdf - 2.2 megabytes) |
February 1, 2015
Media Release
B.C.
Government "Removes" 113 Documents from Mount
Polley Disaster Panel Investigation Website
- Backgrounder
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December 1, 2014
Media Release
Alliance Releases
Scene of the Crime, a New Report Analysis of the
Mount Polley Mine's Tailings Storage Facility
- Executive Summary
(2.5 mbytes)
- Full Report (63
mbytes)
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September 26, 2014
Media Release
Polleygate: What
Did They Know, And When Did They Know It?
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September
25, 2014
Media
Release
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September 1, 2014
The Mount Polley
"Tailings Storage Facility": Landsat 8
Satellite Imagery, 2009-2014
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September 30, 2013
Media Release
Alliance Reveals
More Drinking Water Scandals in New Big Eddy
Report
(Download
Report Here)
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August 30, 2013
Letter to BC
Energy Minister Bill Bennett & Media
Release:
BC Energy Minister's Public
Response Plan for BC Hydro's Future Planning
Report "Deficient and Unreasonable," Claims
Alliance
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June 4, 2013
Letter to
Revelstoke City Council and Mayor
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March 21, 2013
Press Release
BC Liberals Caught
Demoting Protected Status of Community
Drinking Water Sources (pdf)
Backgrounders
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February 27, 2013
News Release
Land Grab Rejected
24 Years Ago - Resurrected in BC Liberals Bill 8
Backgrounders
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January 28, 2013
(pdf file)
No Timber Sales in
the McNeill Lake Watershed Reserve
Backgrounder
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January 11, 2010
(pdf file - 26 kb)
News Release
Government in Supreme Court
to Deny Sinixt Nation Consultation Rights to
Protect Drinking Water Sources
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April 30, 2010
(pdf file - 75 kb)
B.C. Water Act 'Modernization' Submission - WATER FIRST: Seaking
the Ultimate Good of the Land, its Creatures,
and the Public
(includes YouTube video links to April 21, 2010
public workshop in Vancouver) |
December 31, 2009
8-Page Submission
to the Premier's
Green Energy
Advisory Task Force Groups
(Pdf file - 92 kb) |
May 24,
2009
(pdf file - 64 kb)
8-Page Letter to Forests &
Range Minister Pat Bell, concerning the
Creston Valley Forest Corporation and its license
to log in four community watersheds, Arrow,
Sullivan, Camp Run and Lister, three of which are
Watershed Reserves. Backgrounder to
the letter, which is a copy of a
section from Chapter 8 of From Wisdom to
Tyranny)
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December
8, 2008
(pdf file - 8,102 Mb)
Good Servants/Bad Service
An Examination of Records and Reports Relating to
Rossland City's Drinking Watershed Reserves
(1923-2002)
Executive Summary
only
(pdf file - 400
kb) |
November 11, 2008
(pdf file - 474
kb)
4-page letter to Forests & Range Minister Pat
Bell, concerning the awarding of a 99-year community
forest tenure license to the Creston Valley Forest
Corporation in four community drinking watersheds
and Watershed Reserves
Newspaper Articles -
1984-2001
Arrow Creek logging controversies
(pdf file
- 7.54 Mb) |
September 10,
2008
(pdf file - 86
kilobytes)
A transcript of the Metro Vancouver Water Committee
meeting regarding a dicussion about access into the
Greater Vancouver Watersheds |
July 9,
2008
(pdf file - 5 Megabytes)
The Topping Creek Crisis:
Community
Resistance Against Resort Residential and Golf
Course Development Proposals in Rossland City's
Community Watershed Reserve
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News Release - May 30, 2008
B.C. Community Forest Conference
Under Community Fire |
May 20, 2008
(pdf - 19,904 kb)
The Community
Forest Trojan Horse - The Sunshine Coast
Community Forest Proposal and Probationary License
in Two Watershed Reserves - A Case History
(2003-2008).
Text only
(only two images)
(pdf - 1,038 kb)
Summary
Information |
May 14, 2008
(pdf-175 kb)
Response presentation to the Metro Vancouver Water
Committee regarding February 13, 2008
Metro Vancouver staff report made in response to
B.C. Tap Water Alliance November 14, 2007
presentation to the Water Committee
on Metro Vancouver's Drinking Water Management Plan. |
April 3,
2008
(pdf - 141 kb)
Response Submission to the Private Managed
Forest Lands Council Decisions regarding a May 21,
2007 complaint by BC Tap Water Alliance against
TimberWest for violating the provincial private
forest lands Regulation,
clearcutting a riparian corridor on Beech Creek, a
tributary of the Comox Lake drinking watershed,
Comox, Vancouver Island.
April 4, 2008
(pdf - 1,157 kb)
Comox Valley Echo newspaper article,
Timber Company's
Fine Axed |
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Sunshine Coast
Regional District's Board of Health Hearing. A
transcript of Ministry of Forests Sunshine Coast
District Manager Greg Hemphill's witness testimony
from August 8, 2007.
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July 23, 2007
(pdf - 178 kb)
Presentation to the Sunshine Coast Regional
District's Board of Health Hearing regarding a
complaint against Western Forest Products and the
Ministry of Forests about logging in the Chapman
Creek Watershed Reserve. |
May 14, 2007
(pdf - 3,767 kb)
Presentation in Courtney, B.C.
to the Comox Valley
Water Watch Coalition |
March 24,
2007
(pdf - 8,129 kb)
Presentation to the Port Alberni
Save Our Valley Alliance (SOVA)
(Happy First Anniversary ! )
Photo Collection on
TimberWest Cutblock T141 |
"NO TIMBER SALES"
(pdf - 1,170 kb)
FROM WISDOM TO TYRANNY
Article in the March/April 2007 edition of the
Watershed Sentinel (Vol.17, No.2) |
March 8, 2007
Copy of the article by Will Koop in the Georgia
Straight newspaper about the mountain pine beetle
and future flooding. |
February 23, 2007
Leaflet distributed to delegates attending the
annual conference of the BC Association of Forest
Professionals at Harrison Hot Springs, urging BC's
forester members to end commercial logging in
drinking watersheds. |
June 12, 2006
BOOK LAUNCH
FROM WISDOM TO TYRANNY:
A HISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA'S DRINKING
WATERSHED RESERVES
(information on how to get a copy of the
self-published book)
Press
Release, June 23, 2006 |
July 10, 2006
Submission to the
National Energy Board regarding Kinder
Morgan's Anchor Loop Crude Oil (Alberta Tar
Sands) Pipeline proposal through Jasper
National and Mount Robson BC provincial parks |
A PRESENTATION TO THE
SQUAMISH-LILLOOET
REGIONAL DISTRICT
June 20, 2005: Comments on Bylaw 833, on the
Rezoning of 9 Community Watersheds in Electoral Area
"C" |
June 2, 2005:
Presentation of information to delegates
attending the international conference on Landslide
Risk Assessment held at the University of British
Columbia
(MS Word) |
April
26-2005:
Forests
Minister
De
Jong Conspires Against Sunshine Coast Community and
Sechelt First Nation Accord to include Drinking
Watershed Reserves in "Community" Forest License
Click here for photo
compilation on April 19, 2005 public meeting
in Sechelt |
