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Question Period – Old-Growth – 3rd Day of Questions, 3rd Day With No Answers
This week, fellow Green MLA Adam Olsen and I have been asking the Minister for Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations why the NDP government has not meaningfully acted on their promise to stop the logging of old-growth forests in BC. We have asked Minister of...Response from Minister Conroy on Old Growth Protection
Last November, I wrote to Katrine Conroy’s office asking for her Ministry to assist the Ecoforestry Institute Society (EIS) with their plan to purchase an additional six acres of old growth that were once part of the Wildwood Ecoforest. Aside from protecting...Question Period: SIA Water Sampling
In Question Period, I asked the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy why have the water sampling results from the shallow monitoring wells at the contaminated soil site in Shawnigan Lake not been made available to the public. It’s been over eight...Question Period: CGL Pipeline Project and Government Relationship with Wet’suwet’en Nation
In Question Period, I asked the government what steps they took to work with the federal government and with CGL to hold off seeking an extension of their injunction in order to allow more engagement with Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs, particularly since the Missing...Shawnigan Soil – Update January 2020
When the former Minister of Environment revoked the permit for the contaminated landfill in Shawnigan Lake, our community rejoiced. We had stood up for the future we wanted, and we had been successful in getting the outcome we’d fought for over the course of several...
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