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
THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 Christmas Yule Log Plea By Mike Fenger Thirty-one years is a long time and it is how long Friends of Ecological Reserves has been a registered charity and devoted to BC conservation. This is a sincere thanks to all the current and past members, supporters, wardens
Each year since 1997, Lester Pearson College has facilitated the Christmas Bird Count at Race Rocks . This year we established a new record for the distribution of the Boreal Owl in British Columbia. Below is the account of the event from the Race Rocks website. “December 28, 2014– Val George and myself were picked
The vessel traffic lane in the Strait of Juan de Fuca is very narrow and it lies within 3 to 5 nautical miles of the boundary of Race Rocks Ecological Reserve. The ecoguardians at the Race Rocks Ecological reserve have contributed photos of the local fauna, with marine vessels, including tankers in the background and
RE: Notice of Motion by the Province of British Columbia submitted December 5, 2014 OH -01- 2014 Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC (“Trans Mountain”) Trans Mountain Expansion Project (the “Project”) File Number OF-Fac-Oil-T260-2013-03 02 As an Intervenor in the above mentioned application, the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserve’s (Board of FER )provides the following comments
Ed note: This link is included here as an ongoing record of the problem associated with the tar sands project which has resulted in the Kinder Morgan Pipeline Expansion and the Northern Gateway Project of Enbridge. It is an indication of the state of the Social License Oil companies have achieved with such projects.
The B.C. Marine Oil Spill Information System (OSRIS) is a multimedia/GIS computer system to help prepare and respond to marine oil spills. Accessed Dec 2014 at http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/topic.page?id=066E966C3AA7432987469A852A76B5F9 The strength of OSRIS lies with its detailed coastal inventory. Based on this inventory, a sophisticated computer modeling program figures out the sensitivity of each shoreline unit. The