News and Events
World Oceans Day Film Festival June 4-8th, 2021
In celebration of the United Nation’s World Oceans Day, the SCCA is launching our first ever film festival, in collaboration with the Green Film Series and the District of Sechelt. Every year on June 8th, people from all across the planet celebrate the many ways our global ocean benefits our lives and become inspired to protect it. In past years, the SCCA has presented a Sechelt Oceans […]
Reflecting on the SCCA 2021 Virtual AGM
We hosted a successful AGM on May 6th – thank you to all those that tuned in! It was great to connect with our members. We celebrated our past year of achievements and looked forward to what this next year brings us. Avi Lewis’ presentation on Climate Impacts on the Coast engaged and inspired us […]
Join the SCCA Board
The SCCA Board of Directors is actively looking for new members who want to share their expertise with the organization. Directors must be annual members of the SCCA and fulfill their duties for a minimum two-year term. General qualifications include: Financial or communications experience; Ability to fill time commitment of monthly Board Meetings and AGM; […]
Update on Draft Order to Establish Forestry Visual Quality Objectives
In January 2021, the BC Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRO) advertised a draft Order to establish revised Visual Quality Objectives (VQO) for logging in the Sunshine Coast Natural Resource District (SCNRD). The draft Order was open for public comment for 60 days. Visual Quality Objectives determine to what extent clear-cut logging […]
Unsanctioned Logging at Gospel Rock
On December 31st, 2020 the SCCA was informed by citizens of Gibsons that trees had been cut down in the sensitive forest area on Gospel Rock, Block 7. We walked the property on January 2nd and 3rd, 2021 and documented a freshly cut swath of the sensitive ecosystem along the eastern edge of the property. […]
SCCA attends Oceans Protection Plan Forum 2021
2021 marks the last year of the federally $1.5B funded, nation-wide Oceans Protection Plan (OPP). Dianne Sanford and Angela Kroning, from the SCCA Marine Committee, attended the 7th Pacific Dialogue Forum held virtually Feb 17-19th to learn of the progress made on the initiatives relating to the creation of a world-leading marine safety program and […]
January 2021 Gospel Rock Update
Dear Friends, On December 31st, 2020 the SCCA was informed by citizens of Gibsons that trees had been cut down in the sensitive forest area on Gospel Rock, Block 7. We walked the property on January 2nd and 3rd, 2021 and documented a freshly cut swath of the sensitive ecosystem along the eastern edge of […]
New day coming for the Marbled Murrelet
As many readers will recall, the SCCA has a long history with the Marbled Murrelet; we’ve been to court three times, written numerous complaints to the Forest Practices Board, challenged a logging corporation’s environmental certification, participated in various government-initiated reviews, proposed new Wildlife Habitat Areas (about fifty designated so far), and more.
All these efforts were successful in certain ways but didn’t fundamentally resolve the problem of logging in the old growth nesting habitat of this small Threatened seabird, until now!
Gospel Rock Update
The SCCA has been working with the Friends of Gospel Rock Society to protect ecologically rare and sensitive lands in the Gospel Rock Neighbourhood area since 2004. In 2018, the SCCA partnered with The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC) to negotiate a conservation covenant with the Gospel Rock property owner, to forever protect the ecologically sensitive […]