Open Letters — Be Informed — Mount Work Coalition

CRD Parks’ Survey Misleading - Not Aligned with Biodiversity and Conservation Goals

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.

Open Letter to CRD Board: Strike a task force to address CRD's first annual report on biosolids treatment failures

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.

Biosolids, Open Letters, Stop CRDDelaney ToshFebruary 7, 2022biosolids, Biosolid Waste

Colin Plant, CRD Publicly Contradicts CRD's Biosolids Resolutions; Butchart Gardens CEO Takes Plant to Task

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.

Opposition Intensifies as Environment Minister Heyman Fails to Protect Citizens, Farms, Tourists from Biosolids

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.

MLA Adam Olsen Pushes Back on Province's Insistence Biosolids Waste be Spread on the Land at Hartland Landfill

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.

Mount Work Coalition Joins Peninsula Biosolids Coalition to Strengthen Opposition to Toxic Biosolid Spread in CRD

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.

CRD Spreading Sewage Waste (Biosolids) Near Mount Work Park - Tell Minister Heyman to Stop

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.

Open Letter: Feedback to the CRD on the draft Solid Waste Management Plan

Open letter February 14, 2021: Mount Work Coalition’s submission of feedback to Capital Regional District (CRD) Board of Directors on the draft Solid Waste Management Plan.

Open Letters, Hartland Expansion, Stop CRDDelaney ToshFebruary 12, 2021Open Letter, SWMP, crd

Open Letter to Saanich Mayor Haynes: Protecting 73 Acres of Forest at Hartland Landfill

Members of the Mount Work Coalition note with approval your support Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT) and the purchase of 50 acres of land to create a new regional park. Given the importance you attach to preserving our green spaces, we hope you will apply the same logic when it examining the draft Solid Waste Management Plan currently under development by CRD staff which proposes the destruction of 73 acres of forest almost identical to the Mountain Road property you are working to save.

Open Letters, Species at RiskDelaney ToshJanuary 18, 2021Biodiversity, SWMP

Open Letter to Lana Popham, MLA: Your Action Urgently Needed to Protect South Saanich from CRD Plans

Your involvement and leadership are so critical to protect the Mount Work area and to not allow the CRD to turn this valuable natural ecosystem into an industrial area. Building bigger landfills and blasting away forests is not a 21st century approach to waste management.

The Conflict Between Commerce and Human Health - CRD Residents Beware

Agencies, such as the CRD, mandated to protect the health and safety of the environment and humans continue to prioritize commerce over human health.

Biosolids, Open LettersDelaney ToshMay 25, 2020Biosolid Waste, CRD, George Heyman