[LookOutSugarLake] After Kokanee Lodge...

[handr at telus.net]

Hi active SLAMSS!

You are getting this email because you've been actively suggesting  
solutions or providing information concerning the issue we've all  
been fighting for, which is keeping our water clean. Although the  
Kokanee lodge issue is not yet won, we've made a lot of progress in  
sensitizing politicians and in gathering a strong group of supporters  
for clean water. We've now got a good communication system, with our  
email listserv and the website. It would be a shame to lose the  
momentum we have gained.

I have tried to make a complete list of the main issues that need  
addressing if we are to keep protecting our water -Please let me know  
what you think - Is the list incomplete or does it contain things  
that you consider unimportant? As for me, I have decided to focus on  
the issue of pharmaceuticals and care products that enter our water  
and am working almost exclusively on that these days. Russ is working  
on the problem of land privatization around reservoir lakes and also  
on the crowded range lease issues.

Do you feel there is one or more issues you'd like to look out for  
and focus on in particular? I'm thinking that there are now many  
really important issues happening that I'm not following up on, and  
it would be great if we knew that all these issues are at least  
brought to our attention. That way we could at least keep each other  
informed of the major problems happening or lurking ahead, advising  
each other on how to tackle them, and organizing presentations, media  
campaign, petitions or/and demonstrations, to solve those problems.

Please let me know what you think - and also let me know if there is  
anyone in the area whom you consider is

List of Issues that need to be addressed to protect our water & names  
of people currently working on the issue:

1. Effluents in water (including the problem of pharmaceuticals and  
personal & home-care products through direct or indirect discharges)  
- Huguette

2. Watershed land protection (through opposing privatization of land  
next to reservoir lakes) - Russ

3. Abusive logging on the watershed -

4. Abusive ranching on the watershed -

5. Abusive applications of fertilizer, pesticides and fire retardants  
on the watershed -

6. Unchecked motorized recreation on the watershed (problems with  
gasoline, oil and other garbage left up there near creeks, aquatic  
bird habitat and shoreline, etc...)  -

7. Increased human development and road construction -

We have material to send anybody who wants to focus on these issues -  
it includes A) Definition of the problems these issues cause B)  
Suggested solutions C) groups that already address these problems D)  
list of media where to send information E) list of government bodies  
we can pressure

Looking forward to your feedback and hoping we'll make Cherryville &  
Lumby the first BC communities where we prize our Gross National  
Happiness more than our Gross National Product!

Huguette








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