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Save-the-Cedar League Working to Protect Morkill Falls
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 09:45

Across British Columbia, communities are doing everything they can to raise public awareness to take action to stop governments and businesses from ruining natural watershed environments in the name of green energy.

From the annual report of the Save-the-Cedar League, based in Crescent Spur, BC: "The Crescent Spur-Loos Community Association, The West Coast Environmental Law Society, The Western Canada Wilderness Committee, The Save Our Rivers Society, The Dome Forest Information Committee, The Valhalla Wilderness Society, Applied Conservation GIS, The Purcell Alliance for Wilderness, STCL, and others continued our collaborative project to stop the destruction of the magnificent Morkill River Waterfalls, and the proposed habitat destruction of endangered Mountain Caribou, at-risk Grizzly Bear, Bull-Trout, and Chinook Salmon by BC Hydro’s Independent Power Producer’s (IPP) Run of the River Project.  The Ptarmigan Creek/Robson Valley Power Corporation submitted their proposal to government to dry-up Morkill Falls and build 50 km of power lines through endangered Mountain Caribou Reserves and Old Growth Management Areas during 2009.  Your generous support in 2010 will help us stop this ridiculous project that proposes to break the law, yet was still advertised by government for public review.  See STCL's official response to the application submitted to government at: http://savethecedarleague.org/STCL Submission On The Morkill IPP.pdf.