CRD confirms the Residuals Treatment Facility for the Capital Region’s Liquid Waste is now producing biosolids from dewatered sewage sludge and is spreading them on the land at Hartland Landfill - not testing them for Contaminants of Emerging Concern or Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Read MoreZero Waste BC releases report on Capital Regional District’s draft Solid Waste Management Plan, evaluating the SWMP through a Zero Waste perspective. Report includes many evidence-based recommendations to the CRD to adopt to improve their draft SWMP and improve waste reduction targets significantly. Download report here.
Read MoreWe have just a few days left to ensure CRD hears our feedback on the draft Solid Waste Management Plan and their plan to expand Hartland landfill. The liveability of the entire region depends on your feedback. Here’s two easy ways to have your voice heard…
Read MoreOpen 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.
Read MoreMembers 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.
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Victoria, BC
Mount Work Coalition (MWC) welcomes the recent decision of the CRD to extend the public consultation period on the draft Solid Waste Management Plan to February 15, 2021.
CRD just released its draft Solid Waste Management Plan, including plans for a massive landfill expansion. Now is your chance to have your voice heard and demand the CRD be more climate accountable! Here you will find sample letters, key speaking points, CRD contacts, and more…
Read MoreMount Work Coalition, along with community partners, Creatively United for the Planet and Esquimalt ECO Team, and South Island Climate Action Network voiced their support for Esquimalt’s plans for an Integrated Resource Management system that uses new alternative waste technology to reduce waste flow to the Hartland landfill. Esquimalt Council voted to approve funding for Second Phase of IRM study.
Read MoreThe proposed expansion of the CRD Hartland Landfill will occur between 2045 and 2100 and result in the loss of more than 73 acres of trees. During this time, the world will have been transformed either through a severe change in climate if we cannot become carbon neutral by 2050.
Read MoreIs gasification the right solution to eliminate need for landfill and CRD’s plans to massively expand Hartland Landfill? We have received many questions about gasification and its merits. This is exciting - it is promising to see so many in our region engaging in this important conversation about how to better manage our waste while directly addressing climate action. Here are answers to your questions…
Read MoreTo all members of the Mount Work Coalition, this is official notice that an annual general meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 25th at 5:00 pm via Zoom link. Guest Speaker, Adam Olsen, MLA North Saanich & Gulf Islands.
Read MoreYour 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.
Read MoreLast month, the CRD announced it was seeking feedback on their Management Plan for Mount Work Regional Park and launched an online survey. In light of this initiative, and given the growing concerns…
Read MoreWhat we have here is a fable of sorts. Specifically, that analogous tale of David and Goliath. David, of course, being the tax paying citizens of Willis Point; and Goliath being the vested interest of the CRD with regard to its suspect handling of the exponential expansion of Hartland Landfill.
Read MoreJoin the discussion! Mount Work Coalition presents South Saanich Candidates Discussion on October 15th via Zoom.
Read MoreOctober 3, 2020 at 10:00am at Intersection of Willis Point Road and Wallace Drive. Join us at this community action to raise awareness of the CRD’s proposal to turn Willis Point Road and Wallace Drive into a heavy industrial corridor as part of CRD’s massive landfill expansion plan.
Read MoreWithin the next 2 years, the Capital Regional District (CRD) plans to move garbage truck access to the Hartland Landfill facility from Hartland Avenue to Willis Point Road. Yet the CRD has failed to provide a compelling reason for this proposed change…
Read MoreVancouver Island’s Capital Regional District (CRD) declared a climate emergency, yet the CRD staff, and seemingly the CRD Board, are moving full steam ahead on approving a draft Solid Waste Management Plan (link to doc) which will significantly increase Green House Gas (GHG) emissions
Read MoreThe CRD plans to destroy 73 acres of forest near Mount Work Regional Park to make way for blasting, mining and a massive expansion of the Hartland landfill. Here’s why it is critical the CRD stop failing us, shift away from ‘business as usual’ thinking, and get on side with biodiversity and climate action.
Read MoreDespite known species at risk at Hartland and the surrounding parks, CRD plans to destroy 73 acres of forest, including old growth Douglas Fir, to blast a big hole to dump garbage into and decimate known habitat for the Threatened Western Screech-Owl for years to come.
Read More
