Advisory Committee on Logging

Tick, tock, tick, tock. Well, we have our Advisory Committee that will sit down and "work" with Chaskin the management arm of Tsain Ko Forest Development Corportation. Tick, tock, tick, tock. One local resident was heard to say on Monday, "Well, I guess I am on it because it says so in the newspaper." (Coast Reporter, Friday, Aug 3, 2007). When asked if she had any idea when the Committee would first meet, she said no. Tick, tock, tick, tock. So let's see, it is Wednesday, August 8th and the road building and logging is to get underway in early September. This looks really promising, doesn't it? Tick, tock, tick, tock. Our Area Director, who is setting up this Committee under the auspices of the SCRD is now tied up for three days in those local Board of Health meetings mentioned below. Tick, tock, tick, tock. Well, someone on the Committee better assume temporary leadership and call a meeting and begin planning a strategy. It is this writer's opinion that the first priority should be to meet with the Sechelt Band Council and ask if they will respect this community's logging concerns otherwise these meetings with Chaskin are nothing but a complete waste of time. Tick, tock, tick, tock.

According to the newspaper article, the following residents will make up the Advisory Committee: George Connell, Ron Fearn, Kim Foster, Doug Imbeau, Norma Martin, Catherine McEachern, Martin Mees, Maureen Parrott.