Sunshine Coast Waits Ruling on Watershed

The Sunshine Coast Regional District sitting as Local Board of Health wrapped up three days of hearings regarding logging in the Chapman Creek Watershed. During those hearings, the Board heard submissions from Western Forest Products' legal team, the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association, and the 'Concerned Citizens of Sunshine Coast.' The hearings ended at 3:00 pm Friday and the Board immediately went 'in-camera' to debate amongst themselves the merits of those submissions. The Board did not reach a decision by late last night and have resumed its deliberations this morning. The Board says it will sit until it makes ruling on whether logging in the watershed is a threat to human health and will make their decision public as soon as it is reached. The whole of the Sunshine Coast now waits to see if the battle lines will be drawn over logging in community watersheds not only here on the Sunshine Coast but throughout BC.