Bute Inlet Public Meetings in Vancouver and Victoria

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The Provincial and Federal governments have provided insufficient opportunities for public feedback to Plutonic Power Corp’s proposed series of 17 river diversions at Bute Inlet. Public meetings were held only in Sechelt, Powell River, and Campbell River, despite hundreds of people writing the provincial government to ask for public meetings to also be held in Vancouver and Victoria. The government does not consider people residing in Vancouver and Victoria to be directly affected by the project. Nonetheless, this project is larger than Site C, poses many environmental risks, and people want their say! A project of this size is of interest to the whole province. To provide more information and opportunities for public feedback, Watershed Watch, in partnership with BC Creek Protection Society, Wilderness Committee, Save Our Rivers and Raincoast Conservation, is holding public meetings in Vancouver and Victoria.

Speakers from Watershed Watch and Wilderness Committee will describe the project and the issues, and answer questions. Rafe Mair from Save our Rivers Society will also speak at the Vancouver venue. Information displays will be on hand and there will be an opportunity to provide written feedback to government.

• Vancouver Feb. 10th at UBC Robson Square room C300, 7:00 – 9:30pm
• Victoria Feb 11th UVic Elliot Building room 168, 7:00 – 9:30pm

For more information see Watershed Watch's Green Power page as well as the following information:

• Backgrounder
• Vancouver Press Release
• Victoria Press Release
• Vancouver Event Poster
• Victoria Event Poster

To see all the currently proposed private run-of-river hydropower projects on the South Coast, click here to download a file that runs in Google Earth. This file shows the shocking amount of river diversions, roads, powerlines and other infrastructure that these companies want to construct, and clearly makes a case for better government planning, as well as management of cumulative effects. Click here to download a file for the Bute Inlet hydropower project that runs in Google Earth. If you don't have Google earth, you can download the free program at http://earth.google.com. Once you have the Google Earth program, the files will automatically be loaded into "Places" when you open them in Google Earth.

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