Hans Dummerauf, director of the Arrow Lakes Environment Stewardship Society, writes in the Arrow Lake News, “The Arrow Lakes Environment Stewardship Society in collaboration with West Kootenay Ecosociety Nelson, Golden’s Wildsight, and the Council of Canadians have formed a Regional IPP Committee in a united stand with Regional Directors and MLAs (to) say yes to a moratorium on all independent power projects in British Columbia until they are regionally planned, environmentally appropriate, acceptable to First Nations without attachment, and publicly owned.”
“(This) goes for (run of the river projects on) the pristine Cupola, Ventego and Alder Creeks near Golden; the Glacier-Howser proposal; the Koch, Burton’s Caribou, Snow, Trout, Goat Creeks; the more recent Stoney Creek proposal just north of Fauquier as well as the other 135 run-of-the-river proposals throughout the West Kootenays.”
The Council of Canadians Golden chapter is opposed to the Selkirk Power proposal for an ‘independent power project’ on the Ventego and Cupola Creeks in British Columbia, http://canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=7130. The Golden, Nelson and Columbia Valley chapters are opposed to the Glacier-Howser proposal, http://canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=5364.
Dummerauf’s letter can be read at http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/letters/119367499.html.
