By CVRD Regional Director Lori Iannidinardo CVRD Director Lori Iannidinardo In August 2015 Steelhead LNG and the Malahat Nation announced an agreement-in-principle to bring a massive floating LNG export facility into the Saanich Inlet, Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: Georgia Collins: “Waterproofing Our Win” — The Shawnigan Struggle
Georgia Collins As someone who has been active on the Save Shawnigan Water issue from the day it became public in 2012, I have an incredibly intimate connection with this torrid contaminated soil affair. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Damien Gillis-The NDP’s only shot at winning in BC: Embrace the NEW ECONOMY
Here are some excellent posts from Common Sense Canadian that deal with the NDP-Green issues. R BCNDP Leader John Horgan has a tough row to hoe to win the next election (BCNDP/Flickr) The Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Elizabeth May Top Spender–This Gives Going Green A Whole New Meaning
Now I hate to drag Elizabeth May into the fray but after Andrew Weaver’s insiteful remarks and gentle pointers via comments on ‘Cowichan Conversations’ in the previous post, I really could not resist. They Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The BC Greens Looking For A Leg Up Over The Shawnigan ‘Dirty Dirt Fiasco’- BC Liberals Delighted.
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes There has for years been the illusion that the Greens, BC flavour or federal are somehow left, sorta like the NDP with a green tinge. The common ground is that neither Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: An Anatomy of a Water Win
Dara Quast On March 21, 2016, a Supreme Court ruling confirmed the Cowichan Valley’s Regional District’s authority regarding permitted land use. Contaminated soil will cease to be dumped into the community watershed that provides Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe: Elizabeth May and the Greens should double down on BC
Well our old friend Rafe Mair has offered up a diversion, not entirely unwelcome, but highly unlikely. He does make a good point though, for many there is nobody to vote for. Now that has Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD Wins In Court-Bylaw Upheld-SIA Must Shut Down Their Contaminated Chaos In Shawnigan’s Watershed
Still awaiting details but the BC Supreme Court has recognized the supremacy of the CVRD bylaws that prohibited the SIA from hauling in a projected 5 million tonnes of contaminated soils and dumping them in Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Time For A Shakeup At The CVRD
Longtime CVRD Director Loren Duncan served Glenora-Sahtlam-Cowichan Station for a hundred years, more or less. He offered his take on the trials and tribulations of Cowichan Bay’s CVRD Director Lori Iannidinardo. He sees her as Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Chief of the Malahat Nation, Caroline Harry–“The Whole LNG thing… We Were Backed Into A Corner,”
Don Maroc Soon after being elected Chief of the Malahat Nation on November 2, 2015, Caroline Harry told the Salish Sea Sentinel, “The whole LNG thing… we were backed into a corner,” she said Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The ‘Fractured Land’ Documentary Is Coming to Duncan-March 20th
The Cowichan Valley Chapter of the Council of Canadians invites you to join us as we screen the documentary “Fractured Land”. Donna Cameron-Council of Canadians- Cowichan Chapter sent this along and I encourage Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Woodfibre LNG gets environmental stamp of approval from Ottawa
By Elizabeth McSheffrey in the National Observer The federal department, Environment and Climate Change Canada, has given the green light to the controversial Woodfibre LNG project, ruling on Friday that the proposal is Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD Director Iannidinardo’s Lawyer Jack Woodward QC Mocks Steelhead LNG Lawyers Irrational Demands
In a strange and unusual twist the Steelhead LNG/Malahat Nation lawyers sent a missive to the CVRD Board essentially telling them to walkaway, stand down, and not to participate in any further involvement in any Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD Chair Jon Lefebure – Respect and Adhere To The South Cowichan OCP
Here is a statement released by the CVRD followed by a pitch from Chair Lefebure to accomodate an application from Steelhead LNG/ Malahat Nation Board Releases Statement on LNG Projects in Cowichan Valley Duncan: Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bill Routley challenges the science BC Libs rely on to support contaminating Shawnigan Lake
Cowichan NDP MLA blows holes in the BC Governments contention that Science backs their stubborn refusal to act to protect Shawnigan. (Video)
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Proposed Steelhead/Malahat Nation Floating LNG facility Huge Environmental Threat
By Marilyn Venturi I was very happy to see the crowd at Wednesday evening’s CVRD Board meeting. It was disappointing to realize that Director Iannidinardo is apparently alone in her grasp of the LNG Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Steelhead LNG’s Howe Street Executive Demands Surreal Surrender By CVRD Elected Officials
The newly implanted CVRD CAO Brian Carruthers probably thought he finally arrived when his shop received correspondence from the infamous Howe Street, the Vancouver equivalent to Toronto’s Bay Street and New York’s Wall Street. But Read mor…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: All you need to know about LNG: Wade Davis, Dr. Eoin Finn, Damien Gillis panel discussion-VIDEO
Fractured Land LNG panel discussion feat. Wade Davis, Dr. Aion Finn and Damien Gillis from Fractured Land on Vimeo.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alistair McGregor NDP MP Introduces A Bill To Help Protect Shawnigan Lake
Our recently elected MP Alistair McGregor for Cowichan-Langford has been up to the mountain and seen the long lines of trucks with pups loaded with contaminants destined for the Shawnigan Watershed. As a rookie MP Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Politicians Shouldn’t Be Cowed Into Keeping Mum on Saanich LNG Project, Says Eminent Lawyer
Damien Gillis has stepped up and posted this article in the Commonsense Canadian. Our Cowichan Valley challenge to turn back the slick promoters from Steelhead LNG who want to build a massive floating LNG facility Read more…
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