Action Alert! Help protect Sasquatch Provincial Park
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- Published on Friday, 20 June 2014 14:20
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A logging road through Sasquatch Provincial Park?
Dear PAOV,
I have just returned from a public meeting to determine the future of a popular provincial park.
The meeting was run by a representative of a logging company!?! The logging company rep was there to gauge public opinion on a proposal to allow logging trucks to travel through Sasquatch Provincial Park, located near Harrison Hot Springs. It was shocking to me to see provincial parks staff sitting quietly while the logging company spokesperson ran the meeting and made his case for opening up the park to heavy industry.
In all my 30 years of advocating for better protection for our wild nature, I have never seen government oversight of our parks as bad as it is right now. But there is worse to come.
Logging companies, mining companies and oil pipeline companies are all eyeing our provincial parks and applying for their own “park boundary adjustments”. And a recently passed law – Bill 4 – makes it easier for them to do so.
It was very encouraging to see the reaction of people who live near Sasquatch Provincial Park. They are outraged about the scheme to adjust the park boundary to allow logging trucks to pass through. They are bound and determined to protect Sasquatch Park and keep those trucks out.
To read more about the issue, click here to check out yesterday’s article from the Georgia Straight.
The BC government has made it very difficult to even comment on this terrible logging truck proposal. There is almost no information on the BC Parks website about the proposal, and nothing about how to provide comment directly to the parks ministry.
That’s why I am asking you to write now to BC’s Minister of the Environment, Mary Polak to ask her to not adjust the boundary of Sasquatch Provincial Park to allow logging truck through.
Click here to write your letter now >>
Thanks for standing up for BC’s parks!
Joe Foy | National Campaign Director
Wilderness Committee
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