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. |
Stop Fracking
British Columbia
|
Hydraulic Fracturing of
the earth "gold rush" by the Natural Gas industry, including its impact
on fresh water sources (surface, sub-surface)
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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) |
|
For reports,
files, history and features on individual community watershed issues:
* Rossland City;
*
Greater Vancouver;
* the Sunshine Coast;
* Vancouver Island
* Greater Victoria;
* Elk Creek (Chilliwack);
* Arrow Creek (Creston & Erickson);
* Portland City (Bull Run). |
Newsletters |
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) |
Watershed
Intelligence
|
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. |
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 |
A new section
dealing with issues related to global warming. Introductory
article on the mountain pine beetle and flooding in BC. |
| 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 |
Small assembly
of
information: government statistics, Public Accounts Committee, old
report (1953) on groundwater, early info on the Drinking Water Protection Plan. |
| Links |
Links to
internet
websites. |
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| RECENT EVENTS, PRESENTATIONS, ETC. |
June 4, 2013
Letter to
Revelstoke City Council and Mayor
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March 21, 2013
Press
Release
BC Liberals Caught Demoting Protected
Status of Community Drinking Water Sources (pdf)
Backgrounders
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February 27, 2013
News
Release
Land Grab Rejected 24
Years Ago - Resurrected in BC Liberals Bill 8
Backgrounders
|
January 28, 2013
(pdf file)
No Timber Sales in the
McNeill Lake Watershed Reserve
Backgrounder
|
January 11, 2010
(pdf file - 26 kb)
News Release
Government
in
Supreme
Court
to
Deny
Sinixt
Nation
Consultation
Rights to Protect
Drinking Water Sources
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April 30, 2010
(pdf file - 75 kb)
B.C. Water Act 'Modernization' Submission - WATER FIRST: Seaking the Ultimate Good of
the Land, its Creatures, and the Public
(includes YouTube video links to April 21, 2010 public workshop in
Vancouver) |
December 31, 2009
8-Page Submission to the Premier's
Green Energy Advisory
Task Force Groups
(Pdf file - 92 kb) |
May
24,
2009
(pdf file - 64 kb)
8-Page Letter to
Forests & Range Minister Pat Bell, concerning the Creston
Valley Forest Corporation and its
license to log in four community watersheds, Arrow, Sullivan, Camp Run
and Lister, three of which are Watershed Reserves. Backgrounder
to
the letter, which is a copy of a section from Chapter 8
of From Wisdom to Tyranny)
|
December
8,
2008
(pdf file - 8,102 Mb)
Good Servants/Bad Service
An Examination of Records and Reports Relating to Rossland City's
Drinking Watershed Reserves (1923-2002)
Executive Summary only
(pdf file - 400 kb) |
November
11,
2008
(pdf file - 474 kb)
4-page letter to Forests & Range Minister Pat Bell, concerning the
awarding of a 99-year community forest tenure license to the Creston
Valley Forest Corporation in four community drinking watersheds and
Watershed Reserves
Newspaper Articles - 1984-2001
Arrow Creek logging controversies
(pdf file - 7.54 Mb) |
September
10,
2008
(pdf file - 86 kilobytes)
A transcript of the Metro Vancouver Water Committee meeting regarding a
dicussion about access into the Greater Vancouver Watersheds |
July 9, 2008
(pdf file - 5 Megabytes)
The
Topping
Creek
Crisis:
Community Resistance
Against Resort Residential and Golf Course Development Proposals in
Rossland City's Community Watershed Reserve
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News
Release - May 30, 2008
B.C. Community Forest Conference
Under Community Fire |
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 |
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. |
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 |
|
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. |
May 14, 2007
(pdf - 3,767 kb)
Presentation in Courtney, B.C.
to the Comox Valley
Water Watch Coalition |
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 |
"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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