News and Events
UPCOMING: June 4-10 World Oceans Day Festival
Please join our upcoming Sunshine Coast World Oceans Day Festival! In celebration of the United Nations World Oceans Day, the SCCA will be hosting our annual World Oceans Day Festival, in collaboration with Rhizome UP! Media and the Green Film Series. We invite you to Dive in, Explore and Connect! Stay tuned for more information […]
Sunshine Coast Timber Supply Review – Old Paradigm. No Shift.
BC’s Chief Forester will soon decide an Annual Allowable Cut (AAC) for the Sunshine Coast Natural Resource District (SCNRD). The AAC determines how much logging can occur in the Timber Harvest Land Base (THLB) on the Sunshine Coast over the next ten years. NOTE: The THLB represents 160,000 hecatres of public forested land, but it is NOT the only place […]
Geoff Dembicki on the Petroleum Papers
Time: March 1st, 2023 12:00 to 2:30 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Sue Big Oil and Sunshine Coast Sue Big Oil are proud to present award-winning journalist Geoff Dembicki speaking about his book the Petroleum Papers. Drawing on hundreds of secret oil and gas industry documents, Geoff tells the story of how the […]
Fourth Annual Water Research Roundup
The SCCA is excited to share information about this webinar series by Polis Water Sustainability Project. We really appreciate the work they are doing, have learned a lot from their webinar series, and encourage others to tune in and learn more too. The POLIS Water Sustainability Project at the Centre for Global Studies, University of […]
Stage 4 Water Restrictions Finally Lifted
Who would have imagined that 90% of Sunshine Coast residents would be subjected to Stage 4 water restrictions in December? What happened, and what can be done about it? What Happened? As most locals are aware, following a long dry summer, the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) announced Stage 4 water restrictions on August 31st. […]
Premier Commits BC to 30×30
Breaking News! The Government of BC has just taken major action on conservation by protecting 30% of lands by 2030 and advancing Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs). This crucial direction was set through the mandate letter from the Premier to the new Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, Nathan Cullen, and makes BC […]
Call for the creation of the Watershed Security Fund in Budget 2023
On Oct 31 the BC Watershed Security Coalition sent a letter calling for the creation of the Watershed Security Fund in Budget 2023 to all members of the Treasury Board and other strategic Ministers, including Premier David Eby ahead of the cabinet committee meeting discussing the Watershed Security Strategy and Fund. On Friday, Dec 1, at a […]
The Sunshine Coast’s Water Situation gets National Attention
SCCA Executive Director Suzanne Senger and SCRD Vice-Chair Donna McMahon shared the Sunshine Coast’s water challenges on the national stage, with an article in the Globe and Mail. The article details what the two saw when they hiked up to Chapman Lake (the subalpine water reservoir which serves 90% of the population on the Sunshine […]
Sunshine Coast Sue Big Oil Campaign
Over the past decade in British Columbia, climate change accelerated by fossil fuel pollution has led to wildfires, flooding, drought, and extreme heat, with disastrous consequences: destroying towns, drying up water sources, drowning thousands of acres of agricultural land, and – during the 2021 heat dome – killing hundreds of people and untold numbers of […]