Contact
Information |
For contact
information to Will Koop, Coordinator, via email, and address
information. Please help the BCTWA for its operations by kind
donation. |
| About |
For
summary information
about the B.C. Tap Water Alliance, and its formation. |
Reports
and
Presentations |
Browse through a
chronological list and download presentations and reports (since
1997) |
Press
Releases/
Correspondence |
Browse through a
chronological list and download press and news releases and
correspondence (since 1997) |
Community
Watershed Issues |
For reports,
files, history and features on individual community watershed issues:
*
Greater Vancouver;
* the Sunshine Coast;
* Vancouver Island
* Greater Victoria;
* Elk Creek (Chilliwack);
* Arrow Creek (Creston & Erickson);
* Portland City (Bull Run).
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Newsletters
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Two Newsletters:
No.1, Natural
Source Protection: High Time
for a Change (April 2004); and No.2,
"Community"
Forestry in Your
Drinking Water (September 2005)
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Watershed
Intelligence
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A new reporting
format introduced on May 20, 2008. As an original two issue series
journal
from 1995 - 1996 by Friends of the Watersheds about the recent logging
history, and re-protection, of the Greater
Vancouver watersheds, it has been resurrected to fill an important
niche for the provincial level. The first report is a case history
study of the Sunshine Coast community forest.
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Watershed
Reserves |
For
information about BC's Land Act
Watershed Reserves. A key interpretive feature of this new
site, and on the politics behind the "invasion" of BC's drinking
watersheds, is an upcoming lengthy report, due sometime in the summer
of 2005. |
Global
Warming
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A new section
dealing with issues related to global warming. Introductory
article on the mountain pine beetle and flooding in BC.
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| Conferences |
Summary reports on
recent conferences. |
2001 Petition |
A petition, signed
by some 50 provincial organizations in
February - March 2001, for the legislative protection of drinking
watershed sources. |
Other
Reports
and Information
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Small assembly of
information: government statistics, Public Accounts Committee, old
report (1953) on groundwater, early info on the Drinking Water Protection Plan.
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Links
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Links to internet
websites.
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RECENT EVENTS, PRESENATIONS, ETC.
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News
Release - May 30, 2008
B.C. Community Forest Conference
Under Community Fire
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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
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UPCOMING REPORT:
Report
History on BC's Community Forest Tenures and logging of
community/domestic watersheds
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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.
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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.
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May 14, 2007
(pdf - 3,767 kb)
Presentation in Courtney, B.C.
to the Comox Valley
Water Watch Coalition
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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
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"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 |
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