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WATER
Drinking
Water
Marine
Habitat
- Marine
Habitat Protection:
From its earliest days in the 1970s, SPEC has taken measures to
prevent pollutants from entering BC's marine environment.
- Oil-Free
Coast: an Alliance
of 70 organizations dedicated to protecting British Columbia's fragile
marine ecology from the impacts of oil exploration.
- Nanoose
Bay: stopping US nuclear warships from dumping toxic materials
into the Gulf of Georgia.
- Chevron
Oil Refinery: the North Burnaby refinery plans to dump MTBE
contaminated waste water into Burrard Inlet.
- Liquid
Waste Management:
The GVRD claims high costs prohibit the completion of major upgrades
to the city's sewer treatment system before 2050. A recent poll suggests
taxpayers are willing to support protection of our marine environments.
LAND
Materials
Recycling
- E-Waste
(Electronic Product Recycling): Producer responsibility is
the best solution for recycling electronic components, parts and materials.
- Plastics:
SPEC leads a nation-wide campaign for recycled content in plastic packaging
Pesticides
- Pesticides:
The door is now open to more municipal control over health and environmental
issues as a result of a recent Supreme Court decision regarding a pesticide
by-law in Hudson, Quebec. SPEC's campaign aims at banning non-essential
pesticides in BC.
Parks
Development
Projects
- Melvin
Creek / Cayoosh Ski Development:
A large scale (14,186 beds, 12,000-27,900 skiers/day) ski resort to
be built in a pristine mountainous area within the Cayoosh Range. The
proposed development would affect the local mountain goat, wolverine
and grizzly bear populations.
- Vancouver Development
Planning
- Olympic Games
in Whistler/Vancouver
- Wal-Mart
in Vancouver:
If
Wal-Mart builds a giant "big-box" store on Marine Drive, negative
community impacts will follow.
Landfills
& Contaminated Sites
- Dioxin and pentachlorophenol
from US no longer destined for Richmond disposal site
Genetic
Engineering
- GMOs:
working for more transparency on the production,distribution and labelling
of genetically modified foods.
AIR
Air
Quality
- AirCare on the
Road
- Check Your Air:
Power
Plants & Energy Projects
- Sumas
Energy 2 (SE2): working with citizens of Abbotsford to preserve
air quality in the Lower Fraser Valley.
- Chevron
Oil Refinery: North Burnaby refinery is the largest source of
toxic sulphur dioxide gas (SO2) in Lower Mainland.
- BP Cherry Point,
Wa. - Proposed
Gas Fired Generation Project
- GSX Georgia
Strait Gas Pipeline Project
Transportation
- Transportation
in the GVRD: SPEC lobbies for improved transit services in the
Lower Mainland to reduce energy consumption, and reduce greenhouse gas
and other noxious emissions.
- In 1999, cars killed
a record number of pedestrians in Vancouver. Read the Pedestrian
Safety Forum Report of February 2001 (183k PDF)
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Society
Promoting Environmental Conservation
2150 Maple Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6J 3T3
ph: 604-736-7732 fx: 604-736-7115
10am - 4pm, Monday to Friday
email: enviro@spec.bc.ca
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