Notice of AGM: Mount Work Coalition (The Society for the Protection of the Mount Work Region) invites members to our Annual General Meeting on December 1, 2022 at 6:00pm. An important Resolution is proposed regarding future of MWC.
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The public is being asked to weigh in on how the Capital Regional District should handle the conservation, development and use of Mount Work Regional Park. Survey for public input closes May 16, 2022. We invite you to help shape the stewardship of our region over the next 15 years.
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Spring 2022 in Mount Work Region. Here’s what the Mount Work Coalition has been engaged in: Green spaces and the natural ecosystem’s impact on climate change, gasification to reduce waste to landfill, nitrate and ammonia spills at Hartland, toxic biosolids, and stewardship.
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Recently released Capital Regional District data is cause for concern, showing that contrary to assurances given to the public that a maximum of 700 tonnes would be spread, in 2021 over 6,600 tonnes of biosolids were spread or buried at Hartland due to failures at the CRD’s new CRD Residual Treatment Facility. Peninsula Biosolids Coalition calls for CRD to stop spreading toxic biosolids.
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CRD’s biosolids treatment plant still not able to produce Class A biosolids. CRD’s Colin Plant now tells Times Colonist (2022-03-13) CRD might support gasification of region’s waste including biosolids rather than continue spreading the toxic biosolids waste on the ground near Mount Work Park.
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The Capital Regional District Regional Parks Board is in the process of updating the Regional Parks Strategic Plan and is engaging in public consultation, most recently through an online public survey. In this open letter to the CRD Parks Chair and Board members, Frances Litman, Creatively United for the Planet, brings attention to the misleading aspects of the survey and how this contributes to a lack of transparency and a confusion of intent. Note: upcoming CRD info-sessions March 16 and April 1, 2022.
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The Capital Regional District’s (CRD’s) just released first annual report on disposal of biosolids outlines multiple failures of the new Residuals Treatment Plant’s ability to produce Class A biosolids. Hugh Stephens, Mount Work Coalition, pens open letter to Colin Plan, CRD Board, in response.
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Is BC Parks taking biodiversity, climate accountability and meaningful consultation into consideration when it plans to build parking lots and more mountain biking trails in a sensitive wetland and aquifer that supplies area residents with sole supply of water? Local community members and associations express concern; receive form letter in response.
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The Mount Work Coalition (MWC) is a non-profit society established last year to advocate for protection of the Mount Work region to protect it as a recreational and environmental treasure for present and future generations. MWC is run entirely by volunteers. We need your financial support. Please consider donating today.
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Open letter to Capital Regional District Chair, Colin Plant, from the Peninsula Biosolids Coalition, penned by David Cowen, CEO of Butchart Gardens, one of the largest employers in the CRD, and signed by members of the Peninsula Biosolids Coalition. Opposition grows to the spread of toxic biosolids at Hartland Landfill, a regional watershed that boarders Mount Work Regional Park. Open letter calls out Plant for contradicting CRD’s own resolutions to end spread of toxic biosolids at Hartland. Calls on Plant to ensure Public trust.
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Fifteen representatives from business, farming, community and environmental associations, and tourism, plus politicians, sign letter to George Heyman, BC Minister of Environment calling on Heyman to explain why MoE continues to insist on spread of biosolids in Capital Regional District despite all evidence, including MoE’s own internal report, of the persistent toxicity of Class A Biosolids.
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Notice of AGM: Mount Work Coalition (The Society for the Protection of the Mount Work Region) invites members to our Annual General Meeting on December 2, 2021 at 7:00pm. Guest Speakers, Pivotal IRM, will follow the meeting.
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MLA Adam Olsen (Saanich North and the Islands) is listening to his constituents raising real concerns for the safety of the environment and of residents in the region. In his letter to George Heyman, Olsen pushes back on the Minister’s insistence that the CRD spread biosolids waste in the Mount Work region at Hartland Landfill.
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We call on the BC government to recognize the urgency and alarm that people all over the province are feeling as the climate crisis directly impacts our communities and our health. We call on the provincial government to demonstrate the leadership necessary to confront the climate emergency, and immediately undertake the following 10 actions:
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You are invited to an All Candidates Meeting on Sept 8th at 7PM for the riding of Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke. This meeting will follow the 100 Debates on the Environment format with similar events taking place across Canada at the same time. 100Debates.ca.
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We are so close to saving Mountain Road Forest - 49 Acres of forest in Saanich, BC. Deadline to raise the last bit of funds needed to help CRD buy and preserve this forest is July 20th!
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Public pressure brought by a consortium of environmental groups known as the Peninsula Biosolids Coalition, which includes the Mount Work Coalition to support Motion to CRD Board to end land application of toxic biosolids near Mount Work Park and Durrance Lake. Sign the Petition. Urge CRD to adopt the safe alternatives.
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Mount Work Coalition joins forces with The Butchart Gardens and other regional Societies in opposition to spread of toxic biosolid waste at CRD Harland landfill. Fears CRD’s lack of adequate testing of toxins, data transparency and out-dated OMRR will have negative consequences on region, parks, Saanich Inlet, farms, drinking water, and adjacent major tourist destination.
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On May 12, 2021, the CRD Board approved the revised Solid Waste management Plan for the Region. The CRD Board acknowledged that the public had a major influence on shaping the final plan by …
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Class-A Biosolids are shown to contain many contaminants, yet BC Minister of Environment, George Heyman, is allowing biosolids to be spread in parks, forests and farms - including within the CRD - and relying on out-of-date regulations that do not require testing for or monitoring of these known toxicants. Tell him to stop. Alternatives exist.
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