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This Earth Day come out and Help save our part of the Planet from Kevin Falcon says WCWC
by Joe Foy - WCWC •
Thursday April 20, 2006 at 04:12 PM
joe@wildernesscommittee.org (604) 683-8220
Western Canada Wilderness Committee today urged people residing in the Greater Vancouver Regional District to make a special effort to celebrate Earth Day this Saturday, April 22 by attending environmental activist gatherings in Coquitlam and Horseshoe Bay.
Western Canada Wilderness Committee News Release
Thursday April 20 2006 This Earth Day come on out and Help save our part of the Planet from Kevin Falcon says the
Wilderness Committee Western Canada Wilderness Committee today urged people residing in the Greater Vancouver Regional District to make a special effort to celebrate Earth Day this Saturday, April 22 by attending environmental activist gatherings in Coquitlam and Horseshoe Bay. “We believe that Earth Day 2006 finds our region at risk of environmental degradation caused by poorly thought out road building schemes. That’s why I’ll be attending gatherings where people are actively working to protect our environment from the plans of BC Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon,” explained Joe Foy National Campaign Director for the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. From 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM, Wilderness Committee activists will join with concerned citizens (including members of the locally based Burke Mountain Naturalists) in front of the Coquitlam Library Poirier Branch, 575 Poirier Street (at Winslow Ave.) where a Gateway Program open house will be held. Those gathered will hold banners and picket signs to protest Kevin Falcon’s Gateway proposal to expand the Port Mann Bridge and Freeway as well as build new truck haul roads through New Westminster and Delta and expand DeltaPort. The picketers will be calling for a better-funded public transit system instead of an expanded freeway system, and more use of rail to haul goods instead of trucks. In the afternoon, the Wilderness Committee folks will head the Gleneagles Community Centre parking lot to catch a shuttle to the Earth Day picnic celebration at the Eagleridge Bluffs Tent City near Horseshoe Bay. Here activists are camping in the forest to prevent it from being cut down and the ridge blasted to accommodate another one of Kevin Falcon’s highway projects. Local people have called for the existing Sea to Sky Road to be upgraded or for a tunnel under the bluffs to protect the rare ecosystem. “I am told it’s going to be a great all-day family event at Eagleridge Bluffs with lots of great views, easy hiking, and friendly people. I wouldn’t miss it for the world - or maybe I should say the Earth,” enthused Foy. For more information contact Joe Foy
Office Tel: (604) 683-8220 Cell Tel: (604) 880-2580 For more info on Eagle ridge Bluffs go to
http://www.eagleridgebluffs.ca/ For more info on the Gateway Program go to
http://www.wildernesscommittee.org/campaigns/policy/gateway
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