News and Events
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.
Thanks for joining us!
Thanks to everyone who attended the SCCA’s annual fundraiser and dance (the Celebration of Conservation) on Saturday, November 13 at the Sechelt Seniors Centre. Also thank you to Heather Till of the Coast Reporter, who took photos of the event which are on the Reporter’s website. And we have a terrific photo gallery of pics […]
Town Launches Parks Survey
The Town of Gibsons is doing a master plan this summer for all of our Town parks. The first step is a survey. Everyone who uses parks in the Town of Gibsons is invited to fill out the web-based survey and submit it. Parks are not only recreation and community spaces, but play an important […]
CEAA Makes Participation Funding Available to the Public for Bute
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has made $250,000 available to support public participation in the panel review of Bute Hydro Corporations project in the Homathko, Orford and Southgate watersheds at the head of Bute Inlet. An independent Funding Review Committee will consider applications and make recommendations for distribution of the funding. See their press release […]