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Watershed Watch Salmon
Society in conjunction with Save Our Rivers and the Wilderness
Committee is hosting a Community Open House regarding the Bute Inlet
Hydroelectric project Tuesday February 10 at 7:00pm at the UBC
Robson Square Campus.
This proposed project
would be bigger than Site C and would require the diversion of 17
rivers, as well as construction of 440 kilometers of transmission
line, and hundreds of kilometers of new roads with new stream
crossings. This project has the potential to irreversibly
affect this wilderness and its grizzlies, mountain goats,
marbled murrelets and resident fish. Watershed Watch believes
an urgent response is required to preserve this remote and stunning
area.
The public comment
period for the massive Bute Inlet Hydroelectric Project is open
until February 18th, and it is important to be informed
and tell the government what you think. The government has
held open houses in Sechelt, Powell River and Campbell River, but has refused to
hold them in Vancouver and Victoria, saying that people in these
cities are not directly affected. We’re all affected when such
massive, ill-advised projects are built without our input or
consent.
Watershed Watch and its
allies are all cooperating to host this event in the absence of a
proper government process, because we think that a project of this
size is of interest to the whole province. To make the situation
even more alarming, the Bute
project is simply the largest among many private hydropower projects
currently proposed for the south coast area. The government needs to
hear that we care about these valleys.
Open
House Details:
Feb
10 at Robson Square UBC Campus, room C300, from 7:00 – 9:30 pm,
with:
- Presentations from
Watershed Watch (Craig Orr), Wilderness Committee (Gwen Barlee),
and Save Our Rivers (Rafe Mair) starting at 7:00
pm
- MC’d by Vicky
Husband
- A question and
answer/comment session
- Information displays
- Stations for providing
written feedback to government
More
information:
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