David & Goliath Battle
Shaping Up In Nanaimo
If you wish to join with other Nanaimo residents engaged in the David and Goliath struggle with city hall to save the lakes in Colliery Dam Park you can help in a tangilble way by contributing funds to their defense fund.
It is really too bad when citizens of a community have to dig into their own pockets to fight legal battles with their elected and unelected 'leaders' who in turn have limitless taxpayer supported funds to fight the very citizens they claim to represent.
there is a council meeting to tonght
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dear mayor and council
my name is Kenneth Brault I live at 1194 college drive
I understand there is a meeting tonight about the Colliery Dam issue again.
I written to you before about this issue.
I want to write and express my concerns and viewpoint, Rebuilding the dam`s are a bad plan.
I also wrote the DFO (see below ) and the The province's fish and wild life and also Snuneymuxw
First Nations, I am requesting my Federal and Provincial government's for a environmental impact about rebuilding the dams
Everyone is speaking for the citizens and loss of of artificial lakes I asked these organizations to speak up for the wildlife and restore the natural habitat. I don't think it is up to a few citizens to say, But the government's that jurisdiction over fisheries and wildlife.
Environmentalist in other parts of Canada protest dams and speak for habitat. i hope can do the same. Make it a nature park with an interpretive program for the future of the kid's, much like Bowen park was rehabilitated it can be a beautiful place if nature is given a chance.
see below
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kenneth Brault
Date: Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Subject: City of Nanaimo Dam issue - replacing Dangerous Dams
To: dfo_epmp@pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Fisheries Protection Program
Douglas Jung Building, Suite 200
401 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 3S4
Hello
can you help me I want to ask for a environmental assessment of the city's plans to
replace 2 exisiting dams in park that are used striclty for recreation.
There are a few of us citizens who would like see the proper thing to be done - decommission the unsafe dams and restore salmon habitat of the fish bearing stream known as Chase River..
There are a couple of city councilors as well as we citzens, see rather than spending money on the replacing the recreational dams to spend it on restoring fish habitat to the whole Chase River.
There has been a resolution passed to remove exisitng dams and a second resolution to replace the dams witha hydro electric dam.
As a B.C. citizen can i demand a environmental assessemt of my Federal Environamental agencies?
Building any dam let alone a hydro electric Dam without an assessment is crazy if not illegal?
I wrote a letter to my city council and sent a copy to the Snuneymuxw First nations
see below
thanks for your reply look forward to it.
sincerely
kenneth brault
Straight Street Design Lyd
1194 college Drive
Nanaimo B.C.
V9R 6A4
1 250 753 9958
visit our web site http://straightstreetdesign.ca/
Sent alst month
ReplyDeleteHello city council
At the city council meeting last week where you voted on the dam removal .
#1
There was one presentation by a citzen Charles Thirkill, hat changed my mind, it inspired me to go to the Dam park and the chase river to make a video. The real issue - the Dam versus the river and it's eco system, While the lake and the dam look pretty. they aren't they just look that Way. The real beauty is the way it was before the dams this video shows the real issue, and what to do.
http://youtu.be/K2UeLTaC87c
So I say don't rebuild the dam, spend the money of the whole chase river habitat restoration. Carefully make a eco friendly wilderness trail from the estuary to the waterfall.
#2
There have been some items and articles comments and letters written about the municipal and provincial governments on this issue. My question to the city council have you consulted with Snuneymuxw first nations and the Douglas treaty?
I am pretty sure Chase river and it's salmon habitat fall under that treaty, Chief Doug White has had a lot to say about the douglas treaty. Snuneymuxw need to be consulted on this one.
kenneth brault
Straight Street Design Lyd
1194 college Drive
Nanaimo B.C.
V9R 6A4
1 250 753 9958
visit our web site http://straightstreetdesign.ca/
If the fish will only come up to the waterfall, why is it necessary to remove the dams? Don't they supply the ability to keep water flowing in the dry summer months? I don't see how the fish would have gone beyond the waterfall before?
ReplyDeletethat`s why we need an environemental assement I don`t know ... you don`t know. One gal on the `save the colliery dam`facebook kept repeating to me... `Dams are good they prevent silt from choking the river` What is that opinion based on ... I asked the BC fish and wildlife rep here in town about that. ``that`s an ill informed statement`` so like you said `you can`t see how` That`swhat everyone should be saying and asking for the assesement .. for the sake of the habitat and not people`s fun park.
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