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    WWC Petition for BC Legislation to Protect Endangered Species

    Did you know... BC has no endangered species law. Help change this!

    BC has more threatened/endangered species than anywhere else in Canada. We are contacting you to ask for your help to protect BC's wildlife and biodiversity. There are currently 1600 species threatened/endangered in our province.Several major environmental groups have come together to campaign for endangered species legislation. We have a petition underway with over 8000 signatures so far, but we are aiming for over 10,000 by the 8th of May. So we are asking you to spread the word about the campaign, and encourage everyone you know to sign the petition. (They can sign up online.) You can help further by:

    1) checking out the campaign website, www.lastplaceonearth.ca, to learn more about the issue and the campaign, and to sign a letter calling for protective legislation

    2) forwarding this email to all your email contacts

    3) asking groups you belong to, and businesses you frequent, to officially endorse the campaign (before May 6th). Ask them to call in to the WC office, and we'll explain what's involved.

    4) downloading the campaign petition from the website, and circulate it (post in on your co-op bulletin board, take it to meetings, etc.). Return petitions to the Wilderness Committee by May 6th (partially full pages are fine).

    "Beautiful BC" is losing it's wildlife and wilderness fast. The UN has  designated 2010 as the "Year for Biodiversity." If we don't act now, 2010 in BC it will simply be another year when we lose more plant and animal species - forever.

    Please help save BC wilderness and wildlife. Thanks!

    Ruth Fahlman | Outreach Volunteer
    Wilderness Committee | Canada's largest membership-based wilderness preservation organization
     mailing address:227 Abbott Sreet, Vancouver, BC V6B 2K7
    office: 604-683-8220 toll free: 1-800-661-9453
    web: www.wildernesscommittee.org
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    4月28日

    7 pm Adventure Centre Apr. 29 Public forum re: STV

    All, I hope I’m not annoying you with the STV related emails but I do feel that this is of the most important things. STV stands for single transferable vote. What it ‘really’ stands for is transforming politics in BC. I view STV like a good foundation in a house – if you have a good foundation, you have a solid house, but if you don’t, you have problems and keep getting them. 

      


    There is a public forum tomorrow night at the Adventure Centre in Squamish at 7pm . Speakers will be in town from both the yes and no sides – I know the ‘yes’ speaker, he’s excellent. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions. Please forward this on to all your Squamish and Whistler contacts. 

      


    Thanks very much, 

      


    Chris 

      


    On May 12 we have an incredible opportunity to vote on the referendum to change British Columbia to a fairer electoral system as recommended by the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.  The new system is called BC-STV. Check out http://stv.ca and vote yes on May 12! 

      



      


    Chris Joseph 

    Squamish, BC 

    604-892-9608 

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    AUDITOR GENERAL AT WORK

    Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 3:35 PM
    Subject: Auditor General's report on DFO and EC and fish habitat protection and pollution
     
    All:
     
    I received a call from the federal Auditor General’s office.
     
    They will be tabling their report on their performance audit of the fish habitat protection and pollution prevention provisions of the Fisheries Act on or about May 12th.  This audit also looks at the effectiveness of DFO’s new habitat management policies.  This is the audit that many of you participated in last year.
     
    Following the release of that audit, members of the AG’s office are planning to come to BC to do a presentation on their finding in June. 

    The tentative dates right now are June 22/23rd (we are trying for an earlier date, but I’m not sure if we can get one). 

    They will be here for a couple of days and are open to giving a presentation in the downtown Vancouver area, at one location in the Fraser Valley (somewhere in Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford OR Chilliwack) and at one location on Vancouver Island (possibly Nanaimo).  

    They would like an audience.
     
    Can you please get back to me and let me know if you, or members of your organization, would attend a public airing of the AG’s findings.  
    The more people the better.
     
    Hopefully, there will be media present.
     
    The location is yet to be determined but it will be in downtown Vancouver.
     
    OH! And spread the word.
     
    John Werring
    Aquatic Habitat Specialist
    Marine and Freshwater Conservation Program
     
    David Suzuki Foundation
    Ste. 219 - 2211 West 4th Avenue
    Vancouver, BC, V6K 4S2
     
    (604) 732-4228 ext. 245
    (604) 732-0752 Fax
    (604) 306-0517 (Cell)
    Visit our website at www.davidsuzuki.org
     
     
    FRY RESEARCH REPORT  FROM ANA
     

    Ana has spent the last two weeks volunteering at Echo Bay.

     A quick report on

    Sealice Season 2009 taking place in Echo Bay,
    Broughton Archipelago…

     As you can imagine, it is too early in the season and we are far
     from being able to give a final verdict, but things are looking
     pretty normal right now. The spring has come late to the Broughton,
     and the fry have only recently come out of the rivers and are now
     moving along the shoreline. After a minor hiccup with the permit
     from DFO coming late, we were catching schools of thousands of fry
     (pink and chum) at a time. Most of them were 35 to 38mm long/4 to
     6mm wide, and some of them were still “unzipped” (belly still open
     with part of the yolk sack showing). They looked pretty good and
     healthy; only 5% of them (or less) had lice (which is nothing
     abnormal). It was funny to see how they change color while you keep
     them in the buckets, trying to blend in with the environment. Then,
     when you release them back into the water, exactly in the same spot
     as you found them, they look almost completely white for a few
     seconds.

     We will have to wait and see how the season progresses, and watch
    closely for the results of the strategy applied by the salmon
     farming industry this year – some corridors have been fallowed
     (meaning that some farms are closed, no fish at all in them) while
     the rest have been treating their fish with Slice. It is known that
     Slice is effective in eliminating the lice; however, as you know,
     there are great concerns that this drug can also have a disastrous
     impact on the surrounding environment (for instance, sealice are
     crustaceans, so there is good reason to believe that Slice, the
     drug designed to kill them, can harm other crustaceans too).

     Researchers at the Salmon Coast Field Station in Echo Bay are busy

     with several projects; Martin Krkosek will once more spend the
    season taking a close look at lice numbers on the fry as they
    travel their migration routes, while Amy McConnell is studying how
     night lights at the farms attract wild species to the nets (and
     they often end up as prey for farmed salmon), and Ashley Park is
     working on the impact of Slice (the parasite-killing drug) on
     species like prawns. Alexandra Morton comes and goes, as meetings,
    talks, and media engagements, among many other things, keep her

    busy. She kept telling me how impressed and happy she was with her
     visit to Squamish and the way she was received – she sends her
     thanks and warmth to all of us once again.

    I will be getting updates from the field station every once in a
     while. I will let you know how things go as and when.

     Ana

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    4月27日

    Standing By

    To all of you "so-called" Ministers
     
    With the 13,094 people who have signed letters to you to protect the wild salmon I too stand with Alexandra Morton.
     
    Not only because she is petitioning you to protect the wild salmon from fish farms, but because I live in Squamish BC.  For decades, I have tried to protect the Squamish Estuary from the Industrial/Commercial development allowed in the Squamish Estuary Management Plan.
     
    High-density housing requires more infrastructures and the District of Squamish has plans for roads thru the Squamish Estuary.  The Squamish Chief Newspaper this week has one such story...  http://squamishchief.com front page and the Squamish BC transportation network of the OCP.
     
    There is an old plan to dredge the Mamquam Blind Channel for the Cruise Ship business.
     
    Presently the harbour is toxic with creosoted pilings that have decimated the herring population.
     
    For the last 15 years, since the Federal Government stopped funding dredging, the Squamish Estuary has been restoring itself as silt has built up.
     
    This silt is sandy, like the beach here was, decades ago.  Perfect for the MIGRATING SPAWNING SALMON and birds if allowed to become marsh.
     
    The District of Squamish has been allowed to force the Industrial Commercial zoning of this IRREPLACEABLE ESTUARY thru the Squamish Estuary Management Plan.
     
    The area with minimal protection west of the Squamish Terminals is soaked with oil because the District of Squamish allowed the berth on the west side of the Squamish Terminals.
     
    There is now only 3% of the BC coast that is IRREPLACEABLE ESTUARY.  Not 5%, 3!
     
    97% of the BC coast can be used for boaters and their pollution.
     
    Please do not allow Dredging in the IRREPLACEABLE SQUAMISH ESTUARY.
    The salmon and birds have nowhere else to go.
     
    The boaters can GO!  Motor Boaters can park their pollution on land!
     
    There's money to be made from the salmon, the birdwatchers and beach-bums so it is best not to allow Motor Boaters in the IRREPLACEABLE SQUAMISH ESTUARY.  The film industry Loves Squamish BC and employs Me! 
     
    SALMON AND BIRDS MIGRATE AND BENEFIT ALL NATIONS!
     
    Sincerely
     
    Deb McBride
    Squamish BC

     

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    Dear Minister of Fisheries, the Honourable Gail Shea and Premier Gordon Campbell,

    I am writing to you again, as I have every week since the middle of February, to ask that you apply three sections of the Fisheries Act to the industrial salmon feedlots. I have not received a reply. The U.S. Organization Trout Unlimited has sent their own letter to you with 360 signatures on it.

    They write:

    ...”    we can no longer stand by and watch silently as this new salmon crisis unfolds.  We have begun to call on our legions of advocates to voice their support for the protection of British Columbia’s wild salmon and steelhead stocks before it is too late.”

    Premier Campbell 13,094 people have signed letters to you on this issue but there remains confusion over your position on salmon farms.  You have suggested on your website that you do not intend to attempt to regain control of fish farms following my constitutional challenge which removed salmon farms to the Federal government. However, you have joined the Norwegian fish farm corporation Marine Harvest in their appeal challenging  this BC Supreme Court decision. Your actions contradict your words.

    In a recent trip to Ottawa MPs and Senators asked me what you intend to do:

    Appeal the decision
    or
    Abide by the decision

    Please visit   www.adopt-a-fry.org  to read the Trout Unlimited letter.

    No one can understand why or how the salmon farming industry in Canada is allowed to operate outside the Fisheries Act which applies to everyone using the marine environment.

    Alexandra Morton      
     
     
    FYI; THE FOLLOWING LISTS ARE IN GROUPS OF LESS THAN 50 FOR EMAILING:

     

     

    Premier@gov.bc.ca;

     Min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca   

     

     

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    4月25日

    Alexandra Morton in Ottawa

    Hello All:

    The Federal government wants to know if Gordon Campbell intends to try and win back the right to regulate fish farms.

    As it stands, Marine Harvest filed a “notice of appeal” and the Province joined in this appeal by  filing an “appearance”.   This is an ambiguous state of affairs. While Gordon Campbell has not publicly appealed my Constitutional Challenge, he has reserved the right to send lawyers to defend the Province’s right to regulate and site fish farms.

    If the Province did not want salmon farms back, they would not have filed an “appearance.”

    The Province has no responsibility to protect wild fish, the Federal Government does.

    There is something you can do.  Contact the Liberal MLA candidates running in this Provincial election and ask them what they will do if elected?  Give up the right to regulate fish farms in the ocean, or fight to win this back.  If they plan to give it up why have they filed an appearance in Marine Harvest’s appeal?

    You can find the Liberal MLA emails at     http://www.bcliberals.com/

    This is very important.

    Alexandra Morton
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    4月3日

    11,000 SIGN TO PROTECT WILD SALMON

    Dear Fisheries Minister the Honourable Gail Shea and Premier Gordon Campbell:

    Eleven thousand (11,000) people have signed a letter asking you to please apply the Fisheries Act to fish farms and
     
    you have not given us an answer.

    We continue to standby,

    ---------------------------------------------------- 

    To add your signature to the letter, see the signatures or learn more about this issue go to

    www.adopt-a-fry.org <http://www.adopt-a-fry.org>
     
     http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cEkxX3p3MGFBbWNVVGNVU3lxQnBwQmc6MA..

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