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We Have the Greatest River Heritage in the World Right Here in BC RECLAIM OUR We have the greatest river heritage in the world right here in BC. Mark Angelo, Order of Canada founder of World Rivers Day British Columbians are facing a major challenge whether we will retain control of our water and power resources. Who gets to control and benefit from these assets is paramount. This public wealth owned by British Columbians is being given away to private power producers who plan on selling us back our own power at much higher rates, effectively turning us from own- ers into renters. In order to protect ours and our children’s inheritance we need to see what is being stolen right now behind closed doors. We deserve better than what this undemocratic government is secretly planning. BC’s rivers and the electricity they produce are precious public property. A tragedy will unfold unless we reclaim our rights one river at a time. See the list and map inside showing the magnitude of the theft as BC’s government rushes to sell us out to private for profit power. photo by Tim G (cc) OCTOBER 2007 . 23 Upper Pitt River Valley by Elaine Golds needs you! PRESENT FUTURE? nly a few kilometres north- ing population of wild coho left in the stretch of the river, eight pipelines deliv- comment over the next few weeks. (For east of Greater Vancouver lower Fraser River system. Clearly, this ering water to seven powerhouses will current status and more information, see O lies a spectacular valley with is a river system worth protecting. generate a total capacity of 161 MW of www.eao.gov.bc.ca under Upper Pitt). magnificent waterfalls and hot springs, In the late 1990s, a proposed gravel electricity. These projects are sometimes Strong public opposition directed to the splendid scenery and wild salmon in mine on a small tributary of the Upper incorrectly called “micro-hydro,” but premier and Cabinet will be required to abundance. Accessible only by boat, the Pitt galvanized hundreds of people to there is nothing micro about them. stop this project. Upper Pitt River Valley, at the north end write letters to the provincial govern- It’s not only salmon that will have Hundreds of valleys across BC are of Pitt Lake, has been protected from all ment. Due to the potential impacts of their habitat impacted by this proposed now threatened with proposals for similar project. Grizzly bear and other species river diversions from independent power depend on wild creek corridors. Logging producers. Despite this, it’s not clear we To date, there is no precedent for removing a remote wilderness and dynamiting will be required to build really need this energy. The energy pro- roads, construct transmission lines, pipe- duced from these projects is intermittent section of a provincial park to allow industrial development. lines and powerhouses. Roads on steep and available only in certain seasons. In mountain slopes in areas with high rain- BC, when we have our greatest energy If this happens with Pinecone-Burke, we can expect to see fall can cause erosion, landslides and requirements in the winter, when it’s cold harmful siltation in creeks. This project and dark, most of these river diversion similar proposals to cut up provincial parks all across BC. is likely to be a time bomb for disaster in projects will be frozen over and unable the Upper Pitt. to generate electricity. Yet we seem to be And that’s not all that’s wrong with poised to jeopardize both the environ- the usual development pressures. Even this gravel mine on valuable wild salm- this proposal. The proponents want to ment and public values in dozens of val- today, this valley, which falls within on habitat, the Upper Pitt River earned get the electricity out of the valley by leys and place our rivers under the secre- the traditional territory of Katzie First the dubious honour of being listed as the grabbing a portion of Pinecone-Burke tive control of private industry. Nation, hosts but a handful of full-time most endangered river in BC in 2000. Provincial Park to construct a transmis- All of this is happening with little residents. The lower valley is cradled in Thankfully, the NDP government of the sion/transportation corridor to the Squa- government oversight and in the absence the protective embrace of three provin- day listened to the concerns of BC resi- mish area. Their proposed corridor along of an integrated management plan to cial parks: Pinecone-Burke, Garibaldi dents and stopped the gravel mine. Steve Creek goes right through a sensi- determine both how much electricity we and Golden Ears on the west, north and Today, the Upper Pitt River Valley tive wetland and grizzly bear habitat. To really need and the most environmentally east, respectively. faces a far greater threat from a large date, there is simply no precedent for appropriate methods of producing it. The While this remarkable place, set so cluster of proposed run-of-river devel- removing a remote wilderness section wild rivers of BC now face a new threat close to Vancouver, supports several opments. Such power projects are mis- of a provincial park to allow industrial and few people are even aware of it. wilderness species such as grizzly bear, leadingly named because, in fact, they development. If this happens with Pine- wolverine and mountain goats, it is best divert 80 to 95 percent of a river’s mean cone-Burke, we can expect to see simi- Elaine Golds is a Port Moody envi- known for its wild salmon. All species annual discharge into a pipe. Little is left lar proposals to cut up provincial parks ronmentalist and conservation chair/ of Pacific salmon thrive in the waters of for the wild aquatic species that depend all across BC. past president/ of the Burke Mountain the Upper Pitt River and its tributaries. It on natural stream flows. The propo- If there was ever a valley that should Naturalists. She has previously been hosts an unusual sockeye population that nents of the hydro project, Run of River be considered off-limits for “run-of- active in campaigns to stop logging in can live for up to six years and it is the Power, Inc., plan to divert water from river” development, the Upper Pitt is Greater Vancouver watersheds and to best place in the Lower Mainland to find every major tributary of the Upper Pitt it. Yet the proposal is already moving protect areas such as Pinecone Burke ocean-migrating cutthroat trout. One of River, including Boise Creek where rare forward through the laughable provin- Provincial Park and Colony Farm the river’s tributaries, Boise Creek, sup- hybrid trout reside. Five of the eight trib- cial Environmental Assessment process Regional Park. In 1997, she won a pro- ports a unique hybrid of Dolly Varden utaries to be diverted will suffer a direct which has never rejected any industrial vincial environment award and in 2005 and bull trout. Today, the Upper Pitt loss of habitat used by ocean-migrating project – ever. Draft terms of reference she received a BC community achieve- provides habitat for the largest remain- salmon. Within a short 12-kilometre are expected to be released for public ment award. 24 . OCTOBER 2007 Last chance to save Cascade Falls by Ryan Durand or 14 years, the people in the and promoting the natural environment ask how it can be worth it? How can it Environmental Assessment Office, he region and of the small town was more important than an industrial possibly be worth the essential destruc- is battling against all odds to preserve F of Christina Lake fought a pro- venture that would provide a whopping tion of a natural wonder for the profit of his way of life and the business that he posed private hydroelectric dam on the total of three or less full time jobs. a US company? Is it worth it to create has spent years developing and the free Kettle River. In August of 2006, over In addition to the very real social and such a disturbance in a river that may not flowing public waterfall which supplies the objections of the people and their economic implications of developing an even have sufficient water flow, due to the community its incredible tourist local governments, the BC Environ- industrial project in a tourist hot spot, climate change, in the future to generate attraction, along with numerous jobs. mental Assessment Office approved the residents consistently raised a variety profit at the dam? We are hoping that concerned mem- For one local resident the fight is not bers of the public can some forth once over. Gordon Planedin is the owner of a again, one last time, to voice their oppo- The proposal calls for diverting much of the water from the campground at the base of the canyon. sition to this project in hopes of saving Cascade Cove, as the campground is Cascade Falls. This proposal is just one of canyon to power a turbine, which will result in reduced flows called, offers countless visitors an idyllic hundreds of similar small hydro projects natural setting that includes a spectacu- in the works in BC. Some communities in the river bed, or as many residents have described, a mere lar swimming hole in a lazy back-eddy are facing dozens on a single river, yet the at the canyon outlet. The cove is directly BC government refuses to create a prov- trickle through an empty canyon. across from the proposed location of the ince-wide plan or a cumulative effects powerhouse and dam infrastructure.
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