[LookOutSugarLake] FW: sugar lake file#90080

Thu Feb 15 02:00:40 EST 2007

hello there, this is what our mla said to me

Subject: RE: sugar lake file#90080Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:57:17 -0800From: Tom.Christensen.MLA at leg.bc.caTo: muffleur at hotmail.com

Thank-you for your e-mail Edsel.

I’ve had number of meetings with NORD and with officials from the Ministry of Environment. As far as I’ve been able to determine so far, the developer has followed the law. The opportunity may have initially been there for NORD to limit the size of the development but the approval was given. I sincerely wish NORD had never allowed the initial approval (as does NORD from what I can tell), but we appear to be stuck with that now.

Everyone is now looking to the Ministry of Environment to use the Municipal Sewage Regulation (MSR) to address a regrettable land use decision. The MSR was never designed to be a tool to address land use as those decisions rest with the regional district.  The MSR is designed to enable disposal of sewage in what the science says is an environmentally responsible way. 

As I understand the MSR, there is very little discretion to be exercised at this point. It may be possible to get a moratorium in place (and I am pursuing that with the Ministry of Environment) but it would only prohibit proposed discharges that have not already been registered and that likely doesn’t include the Kokanee Lodge (although it would preclude any increase in the Kokanee Lodge discharge). That is the same as the situation at Shuswap Lake where the moratorium applies to future discharges but didn’t impact discharges that were already allowed under the MSR.  

I would very much like to see some other means of dealing with sewage at the Kokanee Lodge than what is currently proposed. The challenge is to ensure the most effective and environmentally responsible treatment and disposal. To that end, I will continue to have discussion with the Ministry of Environment to see what limitations they have the power to impose. I will continue to try to find a solution within the set of circumstances that currently exist.

Thanks for providing me your thoughts,

Tom Christensen
MLA Okanagan-Vernon

From: Edsel Heather Fleury [mailto:muffleur at hotmail.com] Sent: February 9, 2007 10:28 PMTo: Christensen.MLA, TomSubject: sugar lake file#90080

hey there tom, thanks in advance for supporting us here in cherryville. i am referring to the sugar lake development, file # 90080. my family and i, along with many other folks, share fun times in the shuswap river just downstream from the lodge/future development site and i think that it would be in all of our interests to prohibit any type of dumping of any kind of substance into sugar lake, the shuswap river, mabel lake, the shuswap lakes and all of their tributaries. thank you for your interest in this matter, Edsel Fleury

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