Protect Glade Watershed
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    • BC WATERSHEDS
    • Glade Water, Section 29 & Interior Health Authority
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    • Eco-System Based Community Forest
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    • Importance of Forests
    • Almost no Protection for Water, Old Growth, Wildlife....
    • Grizzly habitat threatened
    • CARIBOU Beyond 'Threatened'
    • OLD GROWTH being Logged
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    • Professional Reliance
    • Forestry Stats (CoFI)
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    • Interior Lumber Manufacturer's Association
    • Sustainable, Renewable resource?
    • Failing Forest Stewardship plans & Forest Practices Board
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How you can help protect Glade
water sources & Updates


Stewardship is sacrificing in the present to protect the future.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Herb Hammond, Forest Ecologist

UPDATE: A Forest Practices Board Complaint Investigation is underway (October 2018):
  • The complaint asserts that both licencees (KLC and ATCO) are not meeting the government’s Community Watershed objectives, or the strategies of their own FSPs. This is in part because the assessment that they are accepting as having met the requirements of their strategies is incomplete, outdated, and by the author’s statements, does not meet its own objectives.
  • Under the management system of professional reliance, both licensees agree that the Apex report is satisfactory for their FSP strategies and is valid for a 10-year span. The community of Glade feels that there are a number of serious concerns about the report, including new information not included in the report.

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AND: We proceed with Legal Action!
In an effort to be heard, the Glade Watershed Protection Society (GWPS) has filed court documents which were served to Atco Wood Products, Kalesnikoff Lumber Company, and the Interior Health Authority Tuesday January 22, 2019: these court documents are an application for injunctive relief and it is scheduled to be heard on February 4, 2019. The injunctive relief is a request that logging be legally deferred until the Judicial Review of the IHA’s decision has been made, and/or until the Forest Practices Board Investigation is completed.
In addition, there is a petition for a Judicial Review of the s.29. Since the IHA decided not to initiate any investigation, essentially abdicating all responsibility of their office, we are asking the court to review that decision.

Before trying legal means, the GWPS, GID and the Community of Glade tried many other things to bring attention to our valid concerns. Below is a list of highlights:
  1. The GWPS has held public meetings in our community, we hold weekly GWPS meetings (everyone welcome), update the community by various means, updated and interfaced with the Glade Irrigation District (GID), and created an online Avaaz petition, and organized and held Glade Markets to encourage community involvement.
  2. Organized letter writing campaigns: one was about our concerns to KLC’s draft FSP, another was to IHA (134 letters) to support our s.29 submission, another petition was sent to both licensees stating our objections to conventional logging. A Community Questionnaire was organized and collated.
  3. GWPS collected signatures from the general public, 200+ who stated they were opposed to conventional logging in domestic use watersheds and were in support of the Glade Community
  4. We have networked with industry members, scientists,  watershed groups and alliances, environmental groups, RDCK Directors and others
  5. A s.29 investigation under the Drinking Water Protection Act was submitted to Interior Health Authority in relation to the proposed logging in Glade Creek (2016).  After a year the IHA decided there ‘wasn’t enough evidence’ to initiate a s.29 investigation.
  6. In addition to GID water data collection, the GWPS initiated more data collecting on Glade Creek. Costs for this work are supported by GID and GWPS. When asked if development could be halted until we had collected the relevant data that is missing from the hydrologists report, the licensees refused.
  7. Dr. Martin Carver was retained, who answered the question ‘Is there a Threat to Glade Creek Water?’ in the affirmative in a 8 page professional opinion letter (Jan 2017)
  8. The GWPS has held meetings and written numerous letters to our regional, provincial and federal representatives for their support. We worked with MLA Conroy to try and secure an application for a Community Forest, based on the principles of an Ecosystem based conservation plan.
  9. Interfaced and communicated extensively with licensees, attending all meetings and attending three field trips; one with KLC and two with Atco. We keep requesting a community meeting, but neither licensee is interested in holding one.
  10. Papers and submissions were sent to the government. I.e. a 29 page discussion paper to KLC and ATCO and government officials and a Professional Reliance Review document. All of these documents are available for review and are on our website.
  11. The GWPS met with the District Manager of Forests in an attempt to get that public office to advocate on our behalf to defer logging until sufficient water data had been collected to inform the community of the actual state of our water. 
  12. The GWPS has corresponded with the Forest Practices Board and researched their reports and complaint investigations. In October 2018 a Forest Practices Board Investigation Complaint was submitted. (see above)



PETITION
Sign this petition to the Honourable Mr. Heyman,  Minster of the Environment and Climate Change:
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The Glade Community Watershed in West Kootenay is slated for logging now, with licenses being held by two companies.  There is no time to wait as trees are being cut in many Community Watersheds and more are slated for logging. Contracts are in place and roads are being built. Community Watershed groups have no legal voice, no legislated processes that have meaningful impact. There is no reasonable means to hold forest professionals and government agencies accountable for their damage to watershed.
BC Community Watersheds Need Protection!
The history of legislation of BC water tells a story of industry gaining control of water and trees as commodities, leaving water users responsible for damage inflicted through industrial activity in Community Watersheds.
This has to stop now and it is you and I who will do it.
Our message is simple and clear: An Immediate Moratorium on Industrial Logging in BC Community Watersheds. Citizens of BC have the right to clean, safe water. And in order to have that, we need to protect the forests that help to produce and protect the water.


HOPE locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.
 

When you recognise uncertainty, you recognise that you may be able to influence the outcomes – you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others.
Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists adopt the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting.
It is the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand. We may not, in fact, know them afterwards either, but they matter all the same, and history is full of people whose influence was most powerful after they were gone.” Rebecca Solnit

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Seen on Hwy 6 near New Denver, BC (HMcS)

How you can help...

  • Talk to other people about the issue
  • You can join the Glade Watershed Protection Society & attend our meetings
  • You can write, phone or email Kalesnikoff and ATCO with your concerns!
  • You can write, phone or email local government (addresses below)
  • Contact Interior Health and our Environmental Health Officer
  • You can think of a fundraising idea for the Glade Watershed Protection Society, you can organize a fund raiser!
  • You could write to the Auditor General of BC
  • You can write a 'Letter to the Editor' for our local paper
  • You can write to the government: Ministries of Health, the Environment, Lands and Forests etc.
  • You can help organize community meetings
  • You can network with groups in the area and see if you can enlist help, or learn from them
  • Like our Face Book page for Glade Watershed Protection!
  • You can make a YouTube video!
  • Are you familiar with hashtags or Instagram? Can you think of a way it might be useful to us?
  • You can do some research that might help our cause
  • You could investigate petitions, either local and/or global
  • You can get your name added to our newsletter/ email list
  • You can donate money to our cause: no amount is too small :)
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Glade Creek 06.2016 ©C.Hecker

Addresses

ATCO WOOD Products
Rebecca and Scott Weatherford, President & CEO,
ATCO Wood Products
Box 460, Fruitvale BC   V0G 1L0
 
ATCO Wood Products
Ron Ozanne, Forestry Manager
Box 460, Fruitvale BC   V0G 1L0
Ron.ozanne@atcowoodproducts.com
 
KALESNIKOFF Lumber Company
Kalesnikoff Lumber Company, Woodlands Manager,
Tyler Hodgkinson
2090 BC Hwy 3A, Thrums BC
V1N 3L8
tylerh@kalesnikoff.com
 
Kalesnikoff Lumber Co. Ltd.
Ken Kalesnikoff
PO Box 3000 Hwy 3A
Thrums BC, Canada  V1N 3L8
kenk@kalesnikoff.com
 
GOVERNMENT

Honourable John Horgan, Premier
Office of the Premier
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC V8W 9E1
premier@gov.bc.ca
 
MLA Andrew Weaver, Leader, Green Party of BC
Parliament Buildings
Victoria BC  V8V 1X4
250 387 8347
Andrew.weaver.mla@leg.bc.ca
 
Honourable George Heyman, Minister of Environment & Climate Change Strategy,
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC  V8V 1X4
ENV.Minister@gov.bc.ca
 
Honourable Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource Operations
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC  V8V 1X4
250 387 6240
FLNR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
 
MLA Katrine Conroy, Kootenay West
2, 1006 3rd Street
Castlegar, BC  V1N 3X6
katrine.conroy.mla@leg.bc.ca

MP Richard Cannings, South Okanagan-West.Kootenay
301 Main Street, #202
Penticton, BC  V2A 5B7
richard.cannings@parl.gc.ca
 
MP Wayne Stetski, Kootenay Columbia
Ste. 501-310 Ward Street
Nelson, BC  V1L 5S4

Fish & Wildlife Branch
Dan Peterson, Director
Po Box 9391, Stn Prov Gov't
Victoria BC, V8W 9M8
dan.peterson@gov.bc.ca
 
Dr. Trevor Corneil (Chief, Interior Health Authority)
505 Doyle Avenue
Kelowna BC V1Y 0C5
trevor.corneil@interiorhealth.ca
250-469-7070 Ext: 12791

 

Regional District Central Kootenay
Aimee Watson, Chair
Regional District Central Kootenay
Box 590
202 Lakeside Drive
Nelson, BC  V1L 5R4
a.watson@rdck.bc.ca
 
Ramona Faust, Director, Electoral Area E
Regional District Central Kootenay
Box 1, Procter, BC  V0G 1V0
r.faust@rdck.bc.ca
 
Andy Davidoff, Director, Electoral Area I
Regional District Central Kootenay
1657 Hwy 3A
Castlegar, BC  V1N 4N5
a.davidoff@rdck.bc.ca

Interior Health Authority
Renee Ansel, Small Water EHO
Interior Health Authority
2nd Floor, 333 Victoria Street
Nelson, BC  V1L 4K3
Renee.Ansel@interiorhealth.ca
 
Rob Birtles, Small Water Team Lead
Interior Health Authority
3090 Skaha Lake Road
Penticton, BC  V2A 7H2
 
Forest Practices Board
Dave Clarke, Executive Director
Forest Practices Board
1675 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC  V8W 2G5
dave.clark@bcfpb.ca

Doug Wahl, Manager, Audits & Investigations
Forest Practices Board
1675 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC  V8W 2G5
doug.wahl@bcfpb.ca
250-213-4723
 
Regional Forestry
Garth Wiggill, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Nelson,
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
1907 Ridgewood Road
Nelson, BC 
garth.wiggill@gov.bc.ca

Tara Decourcy, District Manager Kootenay Boundary
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
1907 Ridgewood Road
Nelson, BC  V1L 6K1
tara.decourcy@gov.bc.ca
 
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource
Regional Operations Kootenay Boundary
Paul Rasmussen, Exec. Director
1902 Theatre Rd., Cranbrook BC, V1C 7G1
Tel: (250) 426-1700
 
Other
West Kootenay Eco Society
507 Baker Street, #206
Nelson, BC  V1L 4J2
 
Auditor General of BC
Carol Bellringer,
PO Box 9036 Prov Gov’t
Victoria BC, V8W 9A2
bcauditor@bcauditor.ca
 
Castlegar News
Unit 2, 1810 8th Avenue, Castlegar, B.C V1N 2Y2
1-250-365-6397
Email: newsroom@castlegarnews.com
 
Office of the Ombudsperson
Mr. Jay Chalke
2nd floor, 947 Fort St.,
Victoria, BC V8V 9A5
250 356 1559
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Glade Watershed Protection Society, Glade, Castlegar, West Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada
The value that the forest adds to the health and welfare of all life is paramount and how we care for the elements of nature that provide us with these benefits should be foremost in our actions. This value is as important as or, or even more important than, economic gain, for without the forest ecosystems we cannot flourish. Water is the priority – our forests that produce that water is our priority. Water is life and without clean water, nothing can live.
  • History
  • Watersheds
    • BC WATERSHEDS
    • Glade Water, Section 29 & Interior Health Authority
    • Glade Creek Watershed
    • Watershed Reserves
  • Community Forest
    • Eco-System Based Community Forest
    • Restoration & Wildcrafting in the Forest
  • Forests & Wildlife
    • Importance of Forests
    • Almost no Protection for Water, Old Growth, Wildlife....
    • Grizzly habitat threatened
    • CARIBOU Beyond 'Threatened'
    • OLD GROWTH being Logged
  • Take ACTION!
    • How You can help, Updates
    • BC Coalition for Forestry reform
    • Contact Us
    • Donate HERE!
  • Impacts & climate change
    • Community Questionnaire
    • Impacts from Logging & Road Building
    • Wildfire, Carbon & Beetles
    • Climate Change: the Kootenays and Glade
  • Timber Industry
    • Professional Reliance
    • Forestry Stats (CoFI)
    • Logs & labour to CHINA
  • Local Timber Industry
    • Interior Lumber Manufacturer's Association
    • Sustainable, Renewable resource?
    • Failing Forest Stewardship plans & Forest Practices Board
  • Proposed Logging in Glade
    • Who is Responsible?
    • Proposed Logging (Kalesnikoff) >
      • KLC Updates
    • Proposed LOGGING (ATCO)
  • Links, News, Newsletter
    • Newsletter
    • In the NEWS
    • Publications & Links
  • Upcoming Events
    • Markets, Movie Nights etc...
    • Citizen's Climate Lobby Canada