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Sunshine Coast Conservation Association |
 The SCCA is a volunteer association representing over thirty local conservation and community groups, plus individual members. We are located in the Sunshine Coast Forest District - two million hectares of coastal temperate rain forest on the coast of British Columbia, just north of Vancouver.
We are dedicated to protecting the biodiversity and integrity of our air, water, forests, and marine environments, for all time. The menu across the top of every page links you to information about our organization, including information on how to Contact Us, how to Join, and how to Donate. The menu down the left hand side links you to news and information about our campaigns.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 September 2008 )
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Tyson Creek hydropower project update - Aug. 20, 2010 |
The SCCA has continued with information gathering over the last 5 months. We are now able to clarify past events and also describe what is happing now and what we expect will happen in the near future. Below is a brief account of the whole story, as far as we now understand it.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 22 August 2010 )
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Glass Sponge Reef Petition |
 Glass sponge reefs were thought to have gone extinct 30 million years ago, but in 1987 researchers mapping the sea floor discovered them in Georgia Strait. There's a reef in the waters off Sechelt and another near Roberts Creek.
Over half of the northern reefs were destroyed before fishing closures were put in place by Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 2002. CPAWS (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society) and the SCCA have organized a petition to put trawl and trap line closures in the areas of the southern glass sponge reefs to prevent damage from human activities.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 August 2010 )
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Conservation Values in the Gospel Rock Neighbourhood Plan Area |
 Sunshine Coasters have known in their hearts for generations that the Gospel Rock area is special. Currently available scientific information, provided through the Province’s Conservation Framework, strongly supports this widely held point of view.
To continue reading this article, click Read more, below.
Read the Questions to the Conservation Data Center about Gospel Rock
Carmen Cadrin answers for the CDC
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 July 2010 )
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SCCA Makes Recommendations to Sechelt Council. |
The SCCA has submitted a new paper to the District of Sechelt on how to fix the District's community forest corporation. These six recommendations are mostly administrative in nature but go to the heart of what is needed.
Our paper summarizes recently released Freedom of Information request results and references the standards of the Community Charter and the Province's Guide to Municipal Corporations.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 14 March 2010 )
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Environmental Groups Recommend New Approaches to Clean Electricity in BC |
 Vancouver, December 17, 2009 — Several environmental organizations today released a blueprint for improving the planning and development of renewable electricity projects in British Columbia. The recommendations, authored by the David Suzuki Foundation, the Pembina Institute, Watershed Watch Salmon Society and West Coast Environmental Law, have been endorsed by 25 environmental organizations across the province.
British Columbians are deeply concerned about climate change, and while they support clean electricity to address climate change, many harbour concerns about how clean electricity is currently developed. Government energy and climate policies have stimulated a rapid increase in the rate of development of renewable electricity projects, but public support has not kept pace in many cases. Projects have frequently been opposed due to concerns about social, environmental and economic costs.
The blueprint released today, “Recommendations for Responsible Clean Electricity Development in British Columbia,” outlines how planning and development can proceed in a way that is more transparent, strategic and inclusive of and beneficial to all British Columbians — First Nations and the public alike — while limiting environmental impacts.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 22 December 2009 )
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