Kevin Wallgrove In march we won and the zoning was upheld by the courts, as a result injunctions were issued shutting down the contaminated soil side of the operation. Shortly…
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…
There has never been anything about the dumping of 5 million tonnes of contaminated soil into the Shawnigan Watershed that is supportable. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Will the Trudeau’s Federal…
The escalating threat to the Shawnigan Watershed hangs over the lives of Shawnigan residents facing an unmoving, uncaring and unconscious BC Liberal government. They did not care a fiddle over…
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By Sonia Furstenau Last week, Ministry of Environment released two water sampling reports from their testing at the SIA/CHH site. In the Legislature, Minister Polak responded to question from MLA…
Word of the mass resignation of the Malahat Nation has been directed to Cowichan Conversations. What drove the resignations? To escape scrutiny? The relationship with South Island Aggregates? The…
Shawnigan Lake faces an uncertain future. Here is a very good report from ‘Brent at the Focus’ regarding the BC Environmental Appeal Board Hearing over South Island Aggregates (SIA) applications…
Shawnigan Lake faces an uncertain future. While the CVRD and SIA lawyers present their views to the BC Environmental Appeal Board on whether or not up to 5 million tonnes…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The CVRD fired CEO Warren Jones and have now revealed that they wrote him a cheque for $335,000, a handsome severance designed in part to buy his…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The ups and downs of the battle trying to save Shawnigan from becoming home to 5 million tonnes of toxic soil being dumped in their watershed shows…
The Cowichan Valley Regional District (CVRD) has been appearing before the BC Environmental Board in Victoria looking for relief from the entity that might provide their best chance of overturning…
This picture graced my inbox this morning. Apparently there were a number placed through the Shawnigan umm, downtown area. If anyone has any more pictures, background or information feel free…
CVRD Chair Rob Hutchins Cowichan Valley Regional District Chair Rob Hutchins and Shawnigan Director Bruce Fraser initially liked South Island Aggregates’ plan to bring in contaminated soil, with board chairman…
Sandra McCulloch’s Victoria Times colonist article on the latest SIA drama shows that the proponents can spin the Bullshit with the best of them. The owners of South Island Aggregates…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger As we continue to look at the Shawnigan Basin Society’s attempted tax grab through the discredited Alternate Approval Process (AAP) this Brent Beach December column is being…
