Laurie Rockwell provided this warden’s report on April 5, 2015 • It was a cool 3c at 7.45 am with a light breeze at times, but full sunshine; a perfect outing. • I saw or heard 8 species of birds, mostly expected forest species, but no returning migrants. • most plants were in leaf, but
We just received our feedback to our motion to compel Kinder Morgan /TMX to answer our Round 2 Intervenor Questions more adequately. Their response to 28 out of 31 questions was the same quote: “In accordance with Board Ruling No. 33 (Filing IDA63066), Trans Mountain’s response provided sufficient information and detail for the Board in
Ecological Reserve Wardens Charley and Mandy Vaughan made their first visit of the season to Comox Bluffs Reserve on Friday 13, March 2015. ” The weather was overcast, mild and calm. At the edge of the reserve we met a couple with a dog who had just come from the main beach access, a common
Laurie Rockwell provided this warden’s report for Trout Creek ER for March 2015. the first tour of the year was very quiet and mild at 5c with a periodic breeze and some sun breaking through the cloud cover. It was one of those rare years where there was no snow anywhere and no frost. I
Laas Parnell, a student from Haida Gwaii who attended Lester Pearson College in 2012-2014. She spent the summer in 2014 on a boat 7 hours a day in the ocean around Hippa island which is on the outer ocean side of the Vladimir Krajina Ecological reserve. She has sent us these images of this beautiful
ER warden Doug Biffard supplied this map of the area in the ten mile point reserve where plots have been laid out for an Ecological Monitoring program.
Delivered via online Filing
This filing can be viewed at:
http://docs.neb-one.gc.ca/
Or See the PDF version here: Motion to compel KM to supply adequate responses to FER IR 2 Feb 26
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To: National Energy Board “NEB” 444 Seventh Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta. T2P OX8
From: Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves
C/O Mike Fenger, President, Friends of Ecological Reserves
511 Foul Bay Road
Victoria BC V8S 4G9
Attention: Sheri Young
Re: Hearing order OH-001-2014
Trans Mountain Pipelines ULC (“ (“Trans Mountain”)
Application for Trans Mountain Expansion Project
Notion of Motion to Compel Full and Adequate Responses to Information Requests (IRs)
Please find enclosed the notice of motion to compel full and adequate responses to IRs, filed on behalf of the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER). The filing is in the form of a Table with colour coding as follows:
FER would like to take this opportunity to state that we reviewed all responses. For the inadequate responses we have provided clarification to support that claim. We have also retained all IRs and responses as we have learned from the adequately answered responses too, and these need to remain part of the record.
We have provided links to documents wherever possible through footnotes. We have used endnotes to display maps or portions of references provided by TMX when needed to support understanding of IRs.
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Adequate Responses |
Inadequate responses |
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4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18,21, 23, 25, 26 |
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. |
Mike Fenger
President of Friends of Ecological Reserves
Garry Fletcher
Board member of Ecological Reserves
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In late January , we found out that we had been granted some funding for our work as Intervenors in the National Energy Board, Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project. We had applied in May of 2014. This link shows the location of the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves Documents. https://docs.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/llisapi.dll/Open/2450919 KM/TMX Responses
Context: Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC (Trans Mountain) is proposing an expansion of its current 1,150 km pipeline system between Strathcona County, AB and Burnaby, BC (the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, hereafter ‘the Project’). On December 16, 2013, Trans Mountain filed a Facilities Application for the Project with the National Energy Board (NEB), pursuant to the
From the BC ParKs Management Direction Statement
Alton Valler from Cranbrook, BC has sent a set of pictures taken of the pools at Ram Creek . He indicates ” You may not be aware but this pool was washed out about 2-3 years ago and I have not been back there to see, but I hear its being rebuilt by local volunteers.
On January 15, 2014, The Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves submitted the round 2 set of Information Requests to Kinder Morgan /TMX project. It is posted here: C33-4-1_-_Information_Request_No._2_-_A4G5Q9 Other posts on our concerns about the risk of oil spills in Marine Ecological reserves may be found here: https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/category/issues/oil-spill-threat/ 50 other intervenors in the NEB
THE LOG Friends of Ecological Reserves NEWSLETTER: Autumn/Winter 2014 See the full pdf here: autumn-winter2014-colour-final-2 Contents: Christmas Yule Log by Mike Fenger B.C.’s Shrinking Ecological Reserves System: By Mike Fenger Invasive Interuptus: By Marilyn Lambert, Volunteer Warden, Oak Bay Island Ecological Reserve An Exemplary Ecological Reserve Warden: By Garry Fletcher Update on NEB-Kinder Morgan Trans
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 Parks Collaborative Workshop at Royal Roads By Mike Fenger, Garry Fletcher and Marilyn Lambert Garry Fletcher, Marilyn Lambert and I attended a one-day workshop sponsored by the Elders Council for BC Parks. Marilyn and Garry brought their experience as board members and wardens of
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 FER Contribution to “Solving Wicked Problems” By Jenny Feick, Ph.D. On September 30th in Kimberly, B.C. I presented a poster on behalf of the Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER) at a conference entitled “Solving Wicked Problems: Using Human Dimensions to Inform Natural Resource Management”.
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 Update on NEB-Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Project By Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher In the 2014 Spring/Summer LOG, our editor Louise Beinhauer provided an excellent summary of the Information Requests that Friends of Ecological Reserves provided to Kinder Morgan (KM). This summary is
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 An Exemplary Ecological Reserve Warden By Garry Fletcher Since the Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER) started its new website at www.ecoreserves.bc.ca two years ago, the opportunity has been available for Ecological Reserve (ER) Wardens to submit wardens’ reports and field notes. These reports and
From the: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 Invasive Interruptus By Marilyn Lambert, ER Warden Oak Bay Islands Volunteer Warden, Oak Bay Island Ecological Reserve How would you like to spend a day on a lovely little island in the Salish Sea?” That was the question I posed to a small group