Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The BC Liberal Government has issued a Draft Permit that would allow contaminated and toxic soils to be dumped in the Shawnigan Watershed. Georgia Collins from the Shawnigan Basin Society and Shawnigan Watershed Roundtable has emailed a notice about a meeting that they have organized.
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Cowichan Conversations: CVRD Love In With BC Liberal’s Terry Lake Turns Sour!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger You may recall the enthusiasm our CVRD Directors had after their meeting with then newly appointed Minister of the Environment, Terry Lake last spring. The ‘CVRD Liberal Friendlies’ who attended the meeting were overcome with partisanship. That is a dangerous indulgence for local politicians
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Liberals Put The Shawnigan Lake Watershed Under Threat!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The threat to the Shawnigan Watershed, Creek, Lake and Drinking Water has been before the South Cowichan Community for over a year. Local government efforts collaborating with Environment Minister Terry Lake have proven to be a cruel and ineffective diversion that saw the CVRD
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CRD Secret Land Deal For Sewage Plant Blowing Up In Their Faces!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Don Maroc called this morning after reading the front page story in the Colonist about the CRD’s secret land deal to build a sewage treatment plant in Esquimalt. He told me that they’re no smarter than the Cowichan Valley Regional District politicans. This is just the same
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Harper’s So Called World Class Safety Measures Hit the Rocks
Raeside Rocks!
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bill Routley Challenges Environment Minister To Protect Shawnigan Watershed
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The CVRD Regional District and Shawnigan Director Bruce Fraser have been blissfully sleepwalking through an application from South Island Aggregates (SIA) to dump up to 5 Million tons of contaminated and toxic soils onto their Stebbings Road property in the Shawnigan Watershed. The application
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: How Realistic is David Black’s Kitimat Refinery Proposal?
Peter Ewart looks into the David Black Refinery proposal Locating a bitumen refinery in Kitimat deserves scrutiny and media mogul David Black’s backers do as well. The Black proposal has apparently attracted Swiss backers and certainly has our Premier’s attention but her need for a credible hook to hang her beleaguered political
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair Calls on Christy Clark To Do The Right Thing-Resign!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger When the BC Liberals went to such pains to build up the ‘in house investigation’ it was highly suspicious and now we are finding out why. The ship is rotten from the Premier’s Office down and it is sinking. Rafe Mair’s latest post calls for
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Rot is Spreading-Premier Clark Should Have Resigned!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger It is becoming evident that the ‘Quick Wins Strategy’ was but just one arm of the BC Liberal Octupus of Deception. Now the latest scandal described below confirms a culture that has abused the public trust and and agan used publicly paid staff to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Political Games Being Played Over Application To Dump Contaminated Soil In Shawnigan
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Many worried and stressed Shawnigan residents have been wondering why Shawnigan Director Bruce Fraser and the BC Liberal friendly CVRD Board have been dragging their feet over the SIA application to dump 5 million tons of contaminated soil in the Shawnigan Watershed. Although facing unthinkable
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: George Carlin – The Truth About Life In Premier Clark’s Office
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Well my friends it is Friday afternoon, time for a little humour. Actually, unbeknownst to us George Carlin was hanging around the BC Legislature recently. More precisely in the spirit of openness and transparency he was slumming and checking out life in the Premier’s office, observing Premier Clark
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC NDP Gaining Ground Over Christy Clark’s BC Liberals
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The election is on and has been for awhile now and it is becoming clear that the BC Liberals and Christy Clark are headed for certain defeat. The real question now is how bad will it be for them? We are looking at a possible landslide that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP MLA Bill Routley Challenges BC Liberals Over School Closures
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Personally I found that the dismissal of our elected School Trustees was an unnecessary action savoured by the BC Liberal Government to keep the uppity Trustees in line, not only here but throughout the province. This is not just about money. This shines a light on an
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Let’s Vote For Better Schools! BCTF TV Advertising Is Pathetic!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have watched the BCTF campaign ads over the years. They squander hundreds of thousands of dollars on some really well produced ads and then choke and say stupid things like ‘Vote for Education’ or ‘Vote for Smaller classrooms.” The BCTF’s latest is ‘Let’s Vote for Better
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Conversations Genuine Unscientific Election Poll Results
This unscientific snapshot of Cowichan Conversations followers reflects our leanings but probably is more than we can really expect. Interesting to see the Green support and the low figure for the BC Liberals.In reality it is expected that the numbers will tighten up as we approach May 14th.Thanks for participating.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premier Must Have Known About Ethnic Voter Plot
Christy is lucky Rafe wasn’t interviewing her! Rafe Mair has been through the episodes of a number of Premiers and his advice is unequivocal. Madam Premier the Gig is up! Read the whole post here.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Shawnigan Watershed Threatened While Director Fraser Fiddles
The CVRD has the authority over land use. They failed to enforce their bylaw or draw up another to protect the Shawnigan Watershed. Word has it that the Ministry of Environment has announced that a draft approval of the SIA proposal to dump five million tonnes of contaminated soil into the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Conversations BC Election Poll
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger As we approach the next BC Election scheduled for May 14th Cowichan Conversations has been running a poll of voters intentions to date. The poll is unscientific and reflects the intentions of voters who visit this blog. The poll is still open and can be
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