[LookOutSugarLake] Kokanee Lodge Effluent Discharge Conditions

[Hank Cameron]

Dear Sir
    As a local resident and a member of the local Planning Commission I 
condemn your poor judgement in authorizing the discharge of sewage into the 
clean waters of Sugar Lake. The applicant does not have the permits needed 
to develop the property or even run a campground, because he lied on his 
development application. As a community we have tried to keep this issue 
local, to be dealt with through the local government process.
       Obviously the provincial government holds the financial interests of 
one individual paramount, over the interests of local government, 
environmental protection, and the public health of this community. I don't 
understand why this should be the case. Please explain in your reply.
      Obviously this issue needs to be heard in the larger court of public 
opinion. I suggest that you reverse this decision before it causes more 
conflict, and discredits the applicant's political connections.
                                                                  H Cameron



>From: Wayne Cunneyworth <wcworth at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Wayne Cunneyworth <wayne at cunneyworth.com>
>To: Mike Reiner <mike.reiner at gov.bc.ca>
>CC: george.abbott.mla at leg.bc.ca,  "Mayes; Colin - Riding 1A" 
><MayesC1A at parl.gc.ca>,  "Office PREM:EX OfficeofthePremier" 
><Premier at gov.bc.ca>,  Jerry Oglow <jerry.oglow at nord.ca>, "Ric ENV:EX Baker" 
><ric.baker at gov.bc.ca>,  "ENV at priv-edmwaa06.telusplanet.net:EX" 
><WWW.ENVMail at gov.bc.ca>,  conrad.pryce at gov.bc.ca, 
>lookoutsugarlake at sensociety.org,  "Dr. Paul Hasselback" 
><Paul.HasselbackDr at interiorhealth.ca>,  tom.christensen.mla at leg.bc.ca, 
>huguette at imagine-ere.ca
>Subject: Re: Kokanee Lodge Effluent Discharge Conditions
>Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 22:14:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
>To: Mr. Mike
>Reiner
>
>
>Assistant Regional Manager
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>Environmental Protection -
>Penticton
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>In your response to Ms. Beadin-Allen's letter (below), you state, "the 
>Municipal Sewage Regulation automatically
>registers submissions that are in compliance with it effective the date we
>receive the registration.  There is no discretion to refuse or in your
>words 'not permit this discharge' nor does the Regulation formally
>require consultation and
>notification."
>
>No discretion to refuse?  No consultation and
>notification required?  End of story?!  Not one iota of leadership on such 
>an important issue?!  I respectfully ask, what kind of prehistoric, 
>lemming-like response is that to receive form someone who effectively 
>reports to taxpayers?  As a representative of this provincial government, 
>you should provide every possible assistance to concerned BC residents to 
>demonstrate that this government takes our environment seriously.  
>Obviously, that is not the message that we are receiving.  As an outraged 
>taxpayer, I am now extremely motivated to pass on your message of arrogance 
>and ineptness to every intelligent person that I know.
>
>Based on such a neaderthal approach to environmental stewardship, please 
>add one voter - and if I have anything to do with it, many many more voters 
>- to your active political opposition.
>
>
>
>  Wayne Cunneyworth
>Cherryville, BC
>wayne at cunneyworth.com
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>From: Huguette -
>Imagine-ere [mailto:huguette at imagine-ere.ca]
>Sent: May 2, 2007 7:25
>AM
>To: Reiner, Mike J ENV:EX
>Cc: Baker, Ric ENV:EX;
>Christensen.MLA, Tom LASS:EX; Abbott.MLA, George LASS:EX; Dr. Paul 
>Hasselback;
>WWW ENVMail ENV:EX; Pryce, Conrad ENV:EX; lookoutsugarlake at sensociety.org;
>Mayes, Colin - Riding 1A; Jerry Oglow; OfficeofthePremier, Office
>PREM:EX
>Subject: Kokanee Lodge Discharge
>Conditions
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>Mr.
>   Reiner,
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>   We have heard that Kokanee Lodge has now been given the conditions under
>   which they are permitted to discharge effluents to water.
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>   As you remember, SLAMSS (Sugar Lake And Middle Shuswap Stewards) have
>   repeatedly asked you to inform us should this happen, and to please let 
>us
>   know of the conditions that would be imposed on the discharge to water. 
>As you
>   know, this request is not a matter of simple curiosity but one of 
>necessity:
>   many of us drink that water, swim in it, and live by it.
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>   We also know that you and other members of the Ministry of Environment
>   have met with some First Nations Groups to discuss this matter. It seems
>   inconceivable to us that our petition of more than 700 names that was 
>sent to
>   your ministry detailing all the reasons why we so strongly urged your
>   department to not permit this discharge, would not be the subject of at 
>least
>   the same courtesy.
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>   Our question to you is whether this email request is sufficient for you
>   to advise us of the conditions under which Kokanee lodge is permitted by 
>your
>   ministry to discharge effluents to water, and if not, then what is 
>needed for
>   you to do so?
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>
>   Huguette Beaudin-Allen
>
>   Spokesperson for SLAMSS
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