The Log, 2024 Spring/Summer Newsletter

The 2024 Spring/Summer Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2024 Spring/Summer edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER AGM 300 Hectares of Old Growth Habitat to be protected New Talking Tree Nature Reserve on Galiano Island BC Parks Foundation Receives Large Grant for Lumley Road Project (Salt Spring Island)

The Log, 2023/24 Autumn/Winter Newsletter

The 2023/24 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Just click below. Click here to open the 2023/24 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: FER’s Response to the B.C. Biodiversity & Ecosystem Health Framework Oil Spill Response is Questioned An Ecological Reserve as an Outdoor Classroom ER Proposal History and Current Status Flora of Two East

Should Oil transport be Determined by Environmental Conditions

This article is included because it deals with the imminent threat from oil spills that would affect the Ecological Reserves along the tanker route . 1 Metchosin Environmental Advisory Select Committee (MEASC) feedback regarding Western Canada Marine Response Corporations (WCMRC) Oil Spill Response and Coastal Mapping Program for Metchosin November 2021 Background In 2017, Western

Input to the BC Environmental Assessment Office and additional conditions proposed for the TMX project related to protecting the marine environment.

See this PDF for the Recommendations to the EAO (15 pages)TMX project–EAO Input to the BC Environmental Assessment Office and additional conditions proposed for the TMX project related to protecting the marine environment. February 28, 2021- -Prepared by Friends of Ecological Reserves: Former intervenors with the KM-NEB processes. As an Environmental Non-Government Organization, (ENGO) the

Oceans Protection Plan Dialogue Forum – Transport Canada February 17-19 2021

Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher will participate in the Oceans Protection Forum online February 17-19  . The Annotated_Agenda_2 We have several concerns as a result of our experience as Intervenors in both of the Hearings of the National Energy Board and produced a number of reports as a result of the process. Our participation in

Location of current shipping lanes threaten South Vancouver Island

Location of current shipping lanes threaten South Vancouver Island – time for a change. By Mike Fenger, Victoria  and Garry Fletcher, Metchosin. The 1891 Wreck of the S.S. San Pedro on Brotchie Ledge, a watercolour by Samuel McClure Starting in the mid-1800s, square-rigged ships and coal-fired steamers took on locally knowledgeable pilots at Brotchie Ledge,

Ecological Reserves management issues gap Analysis Survey -2021

PDF version: ER Management Issues Gap Analysis Summary update Feb 15 2021 Citation: Feick, Jenny L. Jan. 2021. Ecological Reserves Management Issues Gap Analysis Summary January 2021 Update. Victoria, B.C., Friends of Ecological Reserves, unpublished report. Acknowledgements: This report and the data analysis that supports it were prepared by Jenny Feick and Ian Hatter with

NEB releases Reconsideration report for Trans Mountain Expansion Project

Our work as Intervenors in the NEB Reconsideration hearings resulted in being acknowledged at least , but when the political decision was already made, we could not make much of an impact.   The following page numbers denote where our submissions were recognized: 408, 410, 448, 478, 482, 498, 518, 534, 613 and 622. See  The

The Log, 2018 Autumn/Winter Newsletter

The 2018 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available from this website. Just click below. Click here to open the 2018 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: Year in Review FER Opening Statement for the NEB Reconsideration Review Ospika Cones ER Field Trip Report Sikanni Chief River ER Field Trip Report To see a complete list of all “The

NEB Trans Mountain Reconsideration Hearing Intervenors

FER Board Members Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher have worked since late September in serving as Intervenors In the NEB, Trans Mountain Reconsideration Hearings. Their aim was to attempt to ensure some level of protection for the shorelines of our 19 Ecological Reserves on southern Vancouver Island and other sensitive ecosystems in the event of

AGM Panel Discussion on Kinder Morgan Pipeline

At the May 16 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Ecological Reserves a panel of four speakers presented their analysis of the Problems of the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion program. https://youtu.be/XB1mfWrgH_c This Link provides the images from a presentation by Stafford Reid on Understanding Risks in the Marine Environment on shores of

The Log, 2016 Autumn/Winter Newsletter

The 2016 Autumn/Winter Newsletter is available. Click here to open the 2016 Autumn/Winter edition of The Log (PDF format). Contents: What Lies Below at Baeria Rocks Ecological Reserve? Campbell Brown ER Det San ER Kinder Morgan Pipeline Project Needs Additional Conditions Biological Diversity Why is it Important? To see a complete list of all “The Log”

The National Energy Board Sidesteps Marine issues in KM Pipeline Approval.

http://docs.neb-one.gc.ca/fetch.asp?language=E&ID=A77045 Today The National Energy released this report approving the Kinder Morgan/Transmountain  Pipeline Expansion Project. Our efforts as Intervenors for the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves and similar concerns of many other intevenors to deal with the risk to the marine environment and the 19 Marine Ecological Reserves have not been considered to be

Level The Playing Field for NEB’s Pipeline Projects Conditions

From The Friends of Ecological reserves Newsletter Autumn/Winter, 2016 By Mike Fenger and Garry Fletcher The summer LOG 2015 included the Executive Summary of the final written evidence from the Board of Friends of Ecological Reserves (Board of FER) sent to the National Energy Board (NEB) in May 2015. We focused our concerns on the

Written Argument In Chief for NEB

The final written Argument in Chief that the Friends of Ecological reserves submitted is  referenced on the National Energy Board website at: https://apps.neb-one.gc.ca/REGDOCS/Item/View/2450919 The Final  Exhibit List with comments of all the intervenors during the National Energy Board hearings on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline since 2014 are included here: https://docs.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/llisapi.dll?func=ll&objId=2484704&objAction=browse&viewType=1

Tsleil-Waututh Nation invite Board of FER speakers at the NEB hearings

(Click to enlarge image) In keeping with Coast Salish tradition, the Sacred Trust Initiative of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, carried out an “honoring” ceremony prior to the commencement of the National Energy Board hearings on Monday January 18th 2016  at the Tsleil-Waututh Community Centre – 3010 Sleil-Waututh Road, North Vancouver  Their ceremony was to “stand up”