All Press Releases

List and Links to All (pdf) Letters, Media / Press Releases
by the B.C. Tap Water Alliance Website
(www.bctwa.org)

December 1, 2022 - Letter to Hon. Katrine Conroy, BC Minister of Forests, re B.C. Timber Sales logging proposal at Roddy Creek, Avola

November 26, 2022 - Letter published in the Nelson Star

August 15, 2022 - News Release - When the People Shout No!

March 4, 2020 - Media Release - Frackers Rape the Rule of Law and Gag Canadian First Nations under the Guise of 'Benefit Agreements': Case in Point, Coastal Gas Link LNG Fracked Gas Pipeline

October 28, 2019 - Media Release - 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

October 2, 2019 - Media Release - Blueberry First Nation vs Government of BC Trial Evidence Says: 91 Percent of Blueberry Territorial Lands are within 500 Metres of an Industrial Disturbance, Primarily Oil and Gas

March 16, 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

March 13, 2019 - Letter to Ray Crampton, District Manager Vernon Forest District

May 14, 2018 - Media Release - Alliance Calls on Government to End Logging, Road Building, and Mining Speculation in Peachland Community Watershed. See attached Backgrounder (25 megabytes)

May 14, 2018 - Letter to Forests Minister Doug Donaldson and Environment Minister George Heyman, re Peachland Creek Community Watershed, Okanagan

October 10, 2016 - Media Release - BC Government / F.O.I. Stalling on Mount Polley Mining Corporation Reports

September 15, 2016 - Letter to Keith Baric, Planning Section Head, BC Parks and Conservation Officer Service Division, re Williamson Lake UREP Map Reserve

June 1, 2015 - Media Release - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Call for Federal Fracking Regulation Flies in the Face of Call for a Ban

April 6, 2015 - Media Release - Withheld Documents Point to Cause of Mount Polley Tailings Disaster

March 10, 2015 - Media Release - Did the Council of Canadian Academies' Frack Panel 'Cherry-Pick' the Scientific Evidence on Harms from Fracking?

February 1, 2015 - Media Release - B.C. Government "Removes" 113 Documents from Mount Polley Disaster Panel Investigation Website

December 4, 2014 - Letter to Mount Polley Independent Engineering Investigation and Review Panel

December 1, 2014 - Media Release - Alliance Releases Scene of the Crime, A New Report Analysis of the Mount Polley Mine's Tailings Storage Facility

October 9, 2014 - Media Release - Edney Creek Fish in Jeopardy Following Mount Polley Disaster - Alliance Urges BC Government and Imperial Metals to Redirect Edney Creek

September 26, 2014 - Media Release - Polleygate: What Did They Know, and When Did They Know It?

September 25, 2014 - Media Release - Alliance Finds BC Environment Ministry Sediment Sampling of Mount Polley Mine Disaster Zone Woefully Inadequate: Ministry Stalls on Declaring Zone a "Contaminated Site"

January 23, 2014 - Media Release - CAPP Continues to Lie - Now to Yukoners

November 15, 2013 - British Columbia in Crisis: The Contradiction of Fracking as Public Water Stewardship in BC's Laws and Proposed Water Sustainability Act

September 30, 2013 - Media Release - Alliance Reveals MORE Drinking Watershed Scandals in New BIG EDDY Report

September 11, 2013 - Media Release - Dubious Track Record in BC Legislature - BC Liberals Trash Public Accountability for Fracking / LNG Agenda

September 10, 2013 - Open Letter to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, re new Case History Catalogue of Contamination of North America's Groudwater from Fracking

September 3, 2013 - Open Letter - Sharing LNG Fracking Riches Means Sharing Fracking Shame: Ecological and Political Crossroads Crisis in British Columbia / Western Canada

August 30, 2013 - Media Release - BC Energy Minister's Public Response Plan for BC Hydro's Future Planning Report "Deficient and Unreasonable", Claims Alliance

July 12, 2013 - News Release - The Big Squeeze: North American Regulator and Protective Agency Close Controversial Groundwater Contamination Cases

June 16, 2013 - News Release - Contamination of North America's Groundwater from Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing) Revealed in a New Case History Catalogue

June 4, 2013 - Letter to Revelstoke City Mayor and Council, re Watershed Reserve Tenure Status of Greeley Creek

March 21, 2013 - News Release - BC Liberals Caught Demoting Protected Status of Community Drinking Water Sources. See Backgrounder Documents.

February 27, 2013 - News Release - Land Grab Rejected 24 Years Ago - Resurrected in BC Liberals' Bill 8

February 27, 2013 - Letter to Doug Konkin, Deputy Forests Minister, re Emergency Intervention: McNeill Lake / Haslem Creek Watershed Reserve Tenure

January 28, 2013 - Letter to Sunshine Coast Regional District, re No Timber Sales in the McNeill Lake Watershed Reserve

November 9, 2011 - Media Release - Scientist Slams Mother Goose Energy Board and Clark Government in Shale Gas LNG Export Approval

November 7, 2011 - Media Release - Alliance Demands Energy Minister Rich Coleman's Resignation

September 6, 2011 - News Release - Western Canadian Energy Ministries "Collaborate" in Secret with Influential Petroleum Cartel on Development of Controversial Fracking Policies. See attached Backgrounder

April 14, 2011 - News Release - Public Inquiry Needed to Address Human Health and Environmental Risks Posed by Shale Gas Drilling, Coalition Says

February 15, 2011 - Media Release - China's Entry into British Columbia Means Bigger Trouble, Says Alliance

February 3, 2011 - Media Release - Canadians Being Fracked by International Energy Producers, B.C. Tap Water Alliance Warns

January 11, 2011 - News Release - Government in Supreme Court to Deny Sinixt Nation Consultation Rights to Protect Drinking Water Sources

February 4, 2010 - Letter published in Georgia Straight newspaper - "Fracking" Practice is Vile and Disturbing

May 24, 2009 - Letter to Pat Bell, Minister of Forests and Range, re the Creston Valley Community Forest License to log in Community Watershed Reserves. See attached Backgrounder.

November 11, 2008 - Letter to Pat Bell, Minister of Forests and Range, re Creston Valley (Community) Forest Corporation 99-Year License Award

May 30, 2008 - News Release - B.C. Community Forest Conference Under Community Fire

April 3, 2008 - Letter to Chair and Council Members of the Private Managed Forest Council, re Comments and Critique of PMFLC's March 13, 2008 Decision re TimberWest Logging Violation in Beech Creek, Comox Lake, Vancouver Island

May 21, 2007 - Letter to Chair and Members of the Private Managed Forest Lands Council, re Violation of Private Managed Forest Land Act Regulation by TimberWest in Mid-Beech watershed, Comox Lake Drinking Watershed, Vancouver Island

February 23, 2007 - BC Tap Water Alliance Urges ABCFP to End Commercial Logging in the Public's Drinking Water Sources

June 12, 2006 - News Release - Alliance Report Details Resource Crime of the Century

April 26, 2005 - News Release - Forests Minister De Jong Conspires Against Sunshine Community and Sechelt First Nation Accord to Include Drinking Watershed Reserves in So-Called "Community" Forest License

October 14, 2004 - News Release - Union of BC Municipalities' Emergency Resolution (B-65) Once Again "Urges" Campbell Government to Protect BC's Drinking Watersheds

October 12, 2004 - News Release - Sloan Commission Template for Protecting BC's Drinking Water: Broken by Government

September 21, 2004 - News Release - Alliance Asks Forests Minister De Jong to Report on New "Community Forest Tenure" Program that Includes Logging in BC's Drinking Watersheds

August 14, 2004 - Letter to Bruce Reid, Mines Inspector, Ministry of Energy and Mines, re AJB Investments Ltd. subsidiary SureSpan Bridges Application for an Aggregate Extraction Permit in the Chapman Creek Watershed Reserve

August 9, 2004 - News Release - Campbell Government Tampers with Community Watershed Objectives in Lillooet LRMP. See attached Backgrounder

August 6, 2004 - News Release - CanFor to Blame for Logging and Gravel Mining in the Sunshine Coast's Water Supply

July 15, 2004 - News Release - Protective Legislation Returns to the Greater Vancouver Watersheds

October 31, 2003 - News Release - Alliance Calls on Cabinet Ministers Hagen and De Jong to Resign

May 27, 2003 - Joint Media Release by the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association and Sunshine Coast Water First Society - InterFor Withdraws from the Community Watersheds

November 26, 2002 - News Release - B.C. Liberals Strip Key Legal Principles from Forest Laws

November 18, 2002 - Letter to Michael De Jong, Minister of Forests, re The Significant Diminishment of Public Scrutiny over Harvesting Plans Under Bill 74

September 23, 2002 - Brochure distributed at the 99th Annual Convention of the Union of B.C. Municipalities in Whistler, B.C. - What are the Critical Issues for British Columbians about their Drinking Water?

September 4, 2002 - Letter to Regional District of Central Kootenay Area Councils, re The Government's Order to Dissolve the Erickson Improvement District and the Related Resolutions Passed by the RDCK on August 24, 2002

May 28, 2002 - News Release - Alliance Urges Campbell Gov't to Honour Sunshine Coast Referendum and Petition for Community Control of Drinking Water Sources

May 22, 2002 - News Release - Campbell Government Cuts Drinking Water "Watchdog" with Bill 35 - Calling it "Red Tape"

May 15, 2002 - News Release - Report Reveals Untold History and "Dirt" Behind Ministry of Health's Tainted Policy on Drinking Water Sources

February 6, 2002 - News Release - Campbell Government Forces Waste of $10 Million to Subsidize Logging of Arrow Creek in Erickson Referendum

November 29, 2001 - Letter to Sindi Hawkins, Minister of Health Planning, re Provincial Health Officer's Annual Report for 2000 on Drinking Water

November 19, 2001 - News Release - Health Minister's Position on Drinking Water Sets BC Back a Century

October 25, 2001 - News Release - BC Tap Water Alliance Calls for John Blatherwick's Resignation

March 12, 2001 - News Release - Old Socred Scandal Still Drives BC Drinking Water Protection Policy

February 22, 2001 - News Release - SPEC Backs Medical Health Officer Peck's Call for Protection of Drinking Watersheds

February 19, 2001 - News Release - SPEC Calls Forest Minister Wilson's Plan for Logging in Watersheds - "Stab in the Back"

February 13, 2001 - News Release - Groups Call on Government to Protect Drinking Watersheds and Create Watershed Reserves

January 30, 2001 - News Release - Immediate Moratorium Called for Logging in Provincial Drinking Watersheds

January 24, 2001 - News Release - Environmentalists Give Thumbs Down on Dosanjh's Drinking Water Protection Plan

January 17, 2001 - News Release - BC Government in Conflict of Interest Over Erickson Chlorination

January 8, 2001 - News Release - Save the Arrow - Water for the Millennium

May 5, 1998 - Media Release - Sunshine Coast Water Users Reject Government Resource Plan - "Safe Water Week" Message Heard Loud and Clear in Referendum

July 14, 1997 - News Release - B.C. Tap Water Alliance Shocked at Recent Supreme Court Decision to Allow Logging in Community Watershed Reserves