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Green MLA seeks answers as an engineer report finds no conflict of interest re contaminated soil at Shawnigan

Sooke PocketNews Posted on August 6, 2017 by Britt SantowskiAugust 6, 2017

Sonia Furstenau, B.C. Green Party MLA for Cowichan Valley, issued the following statement in response to the investigation report by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC that found that no conflict of interest occurred in the case … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Shawnigan Lake

Minister Polak cancels contaminated soil permit, Shawnigan Lake

Sooke PocketNews Posted on February 24, 2017 by Britt SantowskiFebruary 24, 2017

–Media release, The Shawnigan Residents Association On February 23, 2017, our community received the news we have been waiting for. After four and one half years, Mary Polak, Minister of Environment, cancelled the Cobble Hill Holdings contaminated soil permit, effective immediately. The … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Shawnigan Lake

Dumping toxic soil near Shawnigan Lake temporarily halted

Sooke PocketNews Posted on January 25, 2017 by Britt SantowskiAugust 8, 2017

Due to a January 24, 2017 court decision, the dumping of toxic soil near Shawnigan Lake has been suspended. The Shawnigan Lake Association distributed the following release, and BC Environment Minister Mary Pollack has also released a statement. In the … Continue reading →

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Plain English report of April 6 court events; Second Shawnigan Lake court ruling expected on Friday, April 15

Sooke PocketNews Posted on April 12, 2016 by Britt SantowskiApril 12, 2016

The following is reprinted in its entirety, with permission. Link to the original post at the end of the article. A business knowingly built on shaky ground… Submitted by Lehanna Green on April 7th, 2016 Yesterday in court… Before I begin, … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Shawnigan Lake

Cowichan watershed-protection community celebrates victory

Sooke PocketNews Posted on March 22, 2016 by Britt SantowskiAugust 18, 2018

Yesterday (March 21, 2016) the Supreme Court order an immediate end to the dumping of contaminated soil in Cowichan, near Shawnigan Lake. In 2013, the Government of BC awarded a permit for 100,000 pounds of contaminated soil to be dumped in … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Andrew Weaver, John Horgan, Shawnigan Lake

ICYMI: W5 probes contaminated soil dump uphill from Shawnigan Lake in “Trouble in Paradise”

Sooke PocketNews Posted on March 6, 2016 by Britt SantowskiMarch 6, 2016

CTV’s W5 produced an investigative piece on March 5, 2015, on the contaminated soil dumping area uphill from Shawnigan Lake. This project has been opposed almost unanimously by the residents of Shawnigan Lake for the past four years. The root of the outrage? … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Shawnigan Lake

NDP critical of increasing carbon emissions under Clark’s leadership

Sooke PocketNews Posted on March 2, 2016 by Britt SantowskiApril 4, 2016

-from the New Democrat, Official Opposition Christy Clark is a climate failure There is only one true measure of climate leadership: Are your carbon emissions going up, or are they going down? Under Premier Christy Clark they have grown steadily … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged Carmanah, logging, NDP, Shawnigan Lake

SRA update on the contaminated soil dumping happening near Shawnigan and Sooke water reserves

Sooke PocketNews Posted on March 1, 2016 by Britt SantowskiJuly 19, 2016

–Shawnigan Residents Association (SRA) The judicial review of Ministry of Environment Permit PR-105809 allowing the dumping the 5,000,000 tons of contaminated soil in the upper Shawnigan watershed concluded this afternoon after 21 days. Justice Robert Sewell has made a commitment … Continue reading →

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Stand with Shawnigan on January 6, 2015

Sooke PocketNews Posted on January 5, 2016 by Britt SantowskiJanuary 5, 2016

Over the next 50, the BC government is allowing up to 50 million tonnes of contaminated soil to be dumped in an area near the Shawnigan and Sooke Lake reservoirs. The Save Shawnigan Water community is vehemently opposed to this … Continue reading →

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CHEK News covers the nine arrests at Shawnigan Lake, on Tues Dec 22

Sooke PocketNews Posted on December 23, 2015 by Britt SantowskiAugust 8, 2017

CHEK News has a video on their website on the protest and arrests at Shawnigan Lake, that took place on Tuesday morning (December 22, 2015). “Nine people were arrested and released before the protesters conceded, and the crowd started to … Continue reading →

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