[Wamvan] Fwd: Van COC BC FW: Stand up for Harrison Lake area creeks under threat from a proposed private power project: Forward from Wilderness Committee

[Tami Starlight]

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Tami

Stand up for Harrison Lake area creeks ****

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** <http://10000voices.createsend1.com/t/y/l/yhzwy/ozkdlijl/r/>Tretheway,
Shovel and Big Silver creeks, east of Harrison Lake, are under threat from
a proposed private power project and right now we have an
important opportunity to push back against the privatization of these
watersheds. ****

This cluster of projects is going through an Environmental Assessment,
which means that the government and company need to hold a public open
house to hear from the surrounding community. Big crowds at these kinds of
meetings have played a key role in stopping other private power
projects including the Upper
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the massive Bute Inlet
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and Glacier Howser<http://10000voices.createsend1.com/t/y/l/yhzwy/ozkdlijl/t/>
in
the west Kootenays.****

*The public open house will be held Thursday, January 19, 5pm to 9pm at
Evergreen Hall, Cheam Room at 9291 Corbould Street in Chilliwack.    *****

Every year thousands of people visit Harrison Lake to hike
the surrounding hills and fish in the creeks that flow in to the lake. And
it’s not just tourists and nature lovers who you will find in those hills.
They are also home to western screech owl, tailed frog, harlequin duck,
northern goshawk, spotted owl, red legged frog, pacific water shrew and
grizzly bears, many of which are listed as species at risk. ****

The surrounding creeks are also home to rainbow trout and dolly varden,
steelhead, coho, sockeye, longnose dace and cutthroat trout, including *Shovel
and Big Silver creeks, which are both fish-bearing streams.* ****

All of this is at risk if we allow Cloudworks Energy Inc. and their new
owners Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. to fragment this wilderness with
roads and transmission line right of ways. ****

Both companies have records of
being involved in controversial projects. Freedom of Information
requests done by the Wilderness Committee showed that Cloudworks’ nearby Upper
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and their Rutherford
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in the Sea to Sky region had  used poor construction practices,
caused destruction of fish habitat, damaged wetland habitat, logged
streambanks, illegally built a bridge, and illegally harvested wood and
 caused numerous landslides. ****

Innergex, furthermore, is the current owner of the Ashlu project near
Squamish, which sparked much of the opposition to private power projects in
BC when it was forced through over the objections of the local
Regional District when the provincial government passed Bill 30.****

*Clearly we need to stop these companies from getting their hands on any
more of our streams and rivers.* That is why it is so important for you to
join us at this public Open House. If you can't be there in person please
forward this message to your friends and family in the area and take a
moment to write a submission to the Environmental Assessment
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****

*Thank you for standing up for our rivers.*****

Sven Biggs | Outreach Director
*Wilderness Committee*****

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