CCBowen review WFLNG pathway to net-zero
Letter to Woodfibre LNG regarding “Woodfibre LNG’s Pathway to net-zero” plan, published March 2023.
Category: Updates
This Thursday Feb 9, ask Minister Guilbeault to protect the seals and sea lions in Atl’Ka7tsem/Howe Sound
On Thursday February 9, 2023, Concerned Citizens Bowen will join My Sea to sky to ask the Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change to protect the seals and sea lions of the Atl’Ka7tsem/Howe Sound Biosphere Reserve. Currently Woodfibre LNG is trying to have protections for seals and sea lions,…
Bowen Island Council reaffirms position of non-support for Woodfibre LNG
Nexwlelexwem/Bowen Island – July 12, 2022 – Bowen Council reaffirming its position of non-support for the Woodfibre LNG project. The motion was brought forward by Councillors Fast and Nicholson. The motion was a direct result of the presentation on May 24, 2022 After the presentation to Bowen Island, the Woodfibre…
Woodfibre LNG cannot be built
We are in climate emergency and the building of new fossil fuel projects is simply perverse and deeply irresponsible. We must take human civilization from its current trajectory to make life on this planet unlivable. We can do our part by speaking out and coming out firmly against the building…
Woodfibre LNG TERMPOL review…It is too late!
At this point in time -Summer 2018 – it seems Transport Canada has finally started a TERMPOL review to assess navigational risks of LNG super tankers if they were to navigate through Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. Transport Canada offers the voluntary and non-binding TERMPOL review, a technical review of marine…
TERMPOL review of navigational risks of LNG tankers in Howe Sound: we are still waiting
On LNG coming, Trudeau says today's announcement is about decisions are made by the Feds about development. Says it's not about approving project and then going to locals. #bcpoli #cdnpoli — Richard Zussman (@richardzussman) June 21, 2018 O, is it? Woodfibre LNG was approved 2 years ago, we have no…
TERMPOL review of LNG tanker safety? We are still waiting
Provincial and Federal approvals have been issued for Woodfibre LNG, but we, as Howe Sound communities, have up to this date not received any clarity on the navigational risks LNG super tankers sailing in Howe Sound. We still haven’t seen the Transport Canada’s TERMPOL review into this promised to be…
Order your copy of Whale in the Door by Pauline Le Bel
Pauline Le Bel’s most recent book of literary non-fiction is ‘Whale in the Door: A Community Unites to Protect BC’s Howe Sound’. This wonderful beautifully written book has received great reviews. Order your copy through Chapters-Indigo or from your local bookstore Phoenix On Bowen. Pauline will be reading on the…
Stop Burnco gravel mine, Public Comments, Federal deadline Jan 26
Nexwlélexm / Bowen Island – The is the LAST OFFICIAL OPPORTUNITY for public comments in this project’s Environmental Assessment review before of the Environmental Assessment Office will send its recommendations to the Minister of the Environment for a decision. After the last opportunity to comment to the Environmental Assessment Office,…
Stop Gravel Mine at McNab Creek! Stop the Rubber Stamping of Projects!
Over the last 2 plus years we have asked you on numerous occasions to submit comments about the Woodfibre LNG and Burnco projects proposed here in Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. As ‘the public’, we understood the ‘public comments’ had to be based on the applications these companies had submitted to…