Let’s protect land reserve
Interesting, BC undergoing a core review of said land reserve (ALR). We have noticed through the years that often when a new cabinet minister takes over, they just cannot leave a good thing alone.
One of the best – Premier John Oliver was to make this valley between Okanagan Falls and Osoyoos a dry desert area into an Eden. Then Premier Dave Barrett brought in the Agricultural Land Reserve. Now our present government wishes to consider …..reconsidering.
No doubt we do have a good thing with the ALR. Since arriving here in 1926, this valley has been blessed. We need no messing about. There are so few agricultural areas in BC I feel strongly that it should be left alone. If you value our area of BC, remember the pen is as mighty as the sword.
This past summer I flew into Terrace and from there a trip into the Nass River Valley Basin, most of which is under the aboriginal reserve.
We visited three lovely villages and a beautiful new museum. BC’s aboriginals will profit by as much as $700 million should the pipeline be approved, allowing fracking in there.
This is prime fishing country with great salmon up to 50-60 pounds. Yes, I have seen…. it is so and many smaller rivers are spawning waters.
I imagine if fracking, oil pipelines and the oil sands are allowed through our BC lands and coastal areas, there will be no guarantee of NO oil spills; it will be when. Nothing much will be left for the people living there, especially since our First Nations are adept to living off natural foods.
Our North is precious; let’s leave it that way.
Many logging mills are idle as so much of our timber is stripped and sent as is to Asia to become boards. How convenient for them with their cheap labour as well as many of our own illustrious companies making use of the cheap labour.
This makes these companies very cheap as people. So start fighting for our Canadian rights. If left to the present governments we won’t have the Canada we are so proud of.
Agnes Sutherland
February 2014
Oliver Chronicle