Mark Angelo Presentation
Submitted by Hugh Hamilton
West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society
604-922-7828
hugheah@dowco.com
www.pskf.ca/angelo
West Vancouver Streamkeepers and North Shore Streamkeepers are hosting Mark Angelo, the well known conservationist, outdoor leader and writer who will give aphotographictrip titled Rivers of Home, a river tour of BC’s great rivers all the way down to Vancouver and the North Shore.
Please join us on Thursday May 31st. at St. Stephen’ s Anglican Church in West Vancouver. We have provided time for you to meet Mark Angelo in person, and enjoy light refreshments after the presentation.
The place and time are:
St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, 885 -22nd. Street, West Vancouver
Thursday May 31st., 7:30pm - 9:30pm
There is underground parking opposite the Church on Gordon Avenue, and off Marine Drive at the Aquatic Centre
Craig WIlliams put his Google Earth data base online at
IPP Watch
Burke Mountain Naturalists
P.O. Box 52540, R.P.O. Coquitlam Centre
Coquitlam, BC CANADA
V3B 7J4
The Hydro Map was updated. It now contains a complete list of hydro licenses in BC. However it is still work in progress and information about projects is not complete.
Run-of-river hydroelectric projects and their construction have an enormous ecological footprint on some of our Province’s most environmentally sensitive areas, its free-flowing rivers and creeks. The BC CPS would like to ensure that British Columbia´s rivers and creeks are protected for generations to come.
Please consider signing our online petition that is hosted at an independent site (gopetition.com):
BC CPS petiton
We also encourage you to sign the printed version (where available) as the printed version is legally binding.
Learn about specific rivers that are at imminent risk:
Development in wilderness areas can be a threat to endagered species:
Dams and water diversion change the natural flow of rivers and creeks, altering the quality of aquatic habitat and possibly leading to species losses and possible ecosystem disturbances.
Some of the species that are in danger in current small scale hydro projects or may be in danger by potential hydro projects have been granted a special status by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). They include both blue and red listed species.
Blue listed species are not immediately threatened, but of concern because of specific characteristics that make them particularly sensitive to human activities or natural events.
Red listed species have been legally designated as endangered, are extirpated or are candidates for such designation.
The following list of animals is threatened by current and future small scale hydro projects. This list is merely a fraction of species that could be at risk and does not include any insect or plant species, for example. Finally, deforestation as a result of these projects is also an issue.
Barn Swallow, Blue Listed
Bull Trout, Blue Listed
Green Heron, Blue Listed
Grizzly Bear, Blue Listed
Marbled Murrelet, Red Listed
Northern Goshawk, Red Listed
Red Legged Frog, Blue Listed
Roosevelt Elk, Blue Listed
Spotted Owl, Red Listed
Western Screech Owl, Blue Listed
White Sturgeon, Red Listed
Coastal Tailed Frog, Blue Listed
Here is a link to a preview for the documentary that Bryan Smith was working on:
49 Megawatts
It documents the building of the Ashlu power project against local consensus under Bill 30.
Article in the Vancouver Sun:
Plutonic joins the big players in electricity production
This relates to the planned East Toba and Montrose 200 MW hydro project. It draws the typical image from an economic point of view.