News and Events
Tyson Creek Sedimentation Events Update
Update for April 27, 2010Renewable Power Corporation Acknowledges Sedimentation EventIn a press release dated April 23, 2010 Renewable Power Corporation (RPC) of Gibsons, BC has acknowledged that operations of their Tyson Creek hydropower facility has caused major siltation problems in the Tzoonie River and Narrows Inlet.
Tyson Creek update
April 14, 2010 In our posting of April 8 we stated that remedial requirements, stemming from the February 19 shut down order, had been completed. According to an email from Environment Minister Barry Penners office on April 9, 2010, these remedial measures have not been completed and the project will not be given permission to re-commence […]
Tzoonie River silt observed
Glacial-fluvial silt from Tyson Lake via the Tyson Creek independent power project has turned the Tzoonie River estuary and the head of the inlet turquoise green, Narrows Inlet, March 21, 2010. Photo: Bob Price. For more information read the SCCA’s Tyson Sedimentation Event fact sheet.
SCCA Makes Recommendations to Sechelt Council.
The SCCA has submitted a new paper to the District of Sechelt on how to fix the District’s community forest corporation. These six recommendations are mostly administrative in nature but go to the heart of what is needed. Our paper summarizes recently released Freedom of Information request results and references the standards of the Community […]
Environmental Groups Recommend New Approaches to Clean Electricity in BC
Vancouver, December 17, 2009 Several environmental organizations today released a blueprint for improving the planning and development of renewable electricity projects in British Columbia. The recommendations, authored by the David Suzuki Foundation, the Pembina Institute, Watershed Watch Salmon Society and West Coast Environmental Law, have been endorsed by 25 environmental organizations across the province. […]
Tyson Creek IPP Virtual Tour
Tyson Creek is a tributary of the Tzoonie River at the head of Narrows Inlet about 20 miles from Sechelt. Directors of the SCCA were invited by Renewable Resources Hydropower Company (RRH) to take a tour of their Tyson Creek lake storage/run-of-the-river project, which is now nearing completion. We were also invited to view the […]
Six Easy Ways to Fix the Community Forest
Annoyed SCCA members and others have been calling and writing to express their irritation with the recent advertising blitz from Sechelt Community Projects Incorporated (SCPI holder of a probationary community forest licence). This flood of promotional materials includes a major spread in Just Business People Magazine, a 4-page glossy insert in the Coast Reporter, […]
SCCA Files “Request for Review”
The SCCA has filed a “Request for Review ” with the BC Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) on September 2, 2009. This request relates to the Sechelt Community Forest’s response to our Freedom of Information request of June 9, 2009 . The SCCA felt that critical information was wrongfully withheld by Sechelt […]
Big Thank you to Donors
We would like to thank all the businesses and donors for supporting the 2009 Celebration of Conservation held on October 17, 2009 at the Sechelt Seniors Activity Centre. If we have missed anyone we apologize in advance.